Special interest groups spend over $3.7 million per member of Congress, essentially bribing them to vote for policies and laws that favor their businesses.
About half of members of Congress become lobbyists.
Public citizens have no say in the US government today, all their elected officials obey the lobbyists who fund their campaigns, pay for their travel, give them expensive "gifts", and foot the bill for expensive meals.
Both the House and Senate are filled with well-bribed puppets who do the will of the special interest groups that pay them.
Stop this from happening. BAN ALL LOBBYING in the federal government and establish an independent Congressional Ethics Board to monitor and enforce the lobbying ban.