It also means that someone in congress can't be rewarded after their term with a cushy job as a lobbyist. And a congressman that let lobbyists control them, wou

It also means that someone in congress can't be rewarded after their term with a cushy job as a lobbyist. And a congressman that let lobbyists control them, wouldn't be able to receive funds as payment, election term after election term. If this really was good for the lobbyists, it would have been done before.