it's likely that not every Congressperson has some deep dark secret that makes them blackmail-able You don't need to control every congresscritter directly, ju

it's likely that not every Congressperson has some deep dark secret that makes them blackmail-able You don't need to control every congresscritter directly, just to control them by proxy is enough. The nomination committees have a lot of power on who stays and who goes, for example, and so do subcommittee chairs.