Should Taxpayers be paying $40,000 a pop for our Government leader's Portraits?

Portraits of congressional members cost $40,000 a pop and the Republican lawmaker from Louisiana wonders: Why should taxpayers be paying for this? 

“At a time of trillion dollar deficits, it is not appropriate to spend thousands of taxpayer dollars on official paintings, Rep. Bill Cassidy wrote, in a letter to the House Appropriations Committee chairman, The Hill reported. “If agency administrators, cabinet secretaries or members of Congress feel it necessary to commission official portraits, they should be responsible for paying for them.”

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With All the artist's on the Government Payroll already at the U.S. Mint and Postal Service (Stamps), we can't do this in-house without these high costs?

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