On Last Week Tonight, John Oliver turned his gimlet eye on Congressional fundraising. In the 2014 election, the U.S. House and Senate raised a combined $1.7 billion, which Oliver notes is “more than it costs to buy 242 million tubes of hemorrhoidal cooling gel and is somehow even more upsetting.” Politicians spend a lot of time fundraising — up to 25 to 50% of their time in Washington is spent raising money for their campaigns, a percentage that Oliver considers “horrifying.” The best way for candidates to raise money is via fundraising parties, and according to Oliver, that meant throwing over 2,800 fundraisers in 2014.