Yeah that happens, but they're trading favors for continued campaign contributions not free dinners, so paying them more money isn't going to fix anything. For

Yeah that happens, but they're trading favors for continued campaign contributions not free dinners, so paying them more money isn't going to fix anything. Forcing all interactions with lobbyists to be recorded and released might help. Publicly funded campaigns would also probably solve this problem (but could also cause its own problems).