Numbers

By Melissa August, Matthew Cooper, Wendy Cole, Ellin Martens, Desa Philadelphia, Julie Rawe, Alain Sanders, Flora Tartakovsky and Josh Tyrangiel

8.4% Members of the House of Representatives who hadn't paid their taxes as of last October, one of the highest delinquency rates in the Federal Government

8.1% National nonpayment rate

1.7 million Estimated number of returns filed last year with the wrong Social Security number

$50,000 Increase in White House phone bills after an Army sergeant working in the White House Communications Agency gave its long-distance-access code to acquaintances, who made 9,400 unauthorized calls in two months

90# Extension that scammers ask officeworkers to dial, which, phone companies warn, transfers the scammers to an outside line, letting them make a long-distance call on the worker's bill

22 million Estimated number of children in the U.S. who live in homes where there are firearms

43% Homes with children in which guns are not locked up or fitted with trigger locks

Sources: AP; Los Angeles Times, AT&T; American Journal of Public Health