> Okay, if you think having dinner while talking about cancer research is bribery, let me find you an even more bare bones example. wait Didn't you go from lo

> Okay, if you think having dinner while talking about cancer research is bribery, let me find you an even more bare bones example. wait Didn't you go from lobbying (getting a dinner specifically to discuss and convince): > Lets say a lobbyist for a nonprofit cancer research group has dinner with a representative and lobbies him to vote for increased cancer research at this dinner. Is this bribery? to having dinner and talking cancer research en passant: > having dinner while talking about cancer research With that being said, these matters are supposed to be debated on a parliament's floor and an elected parliament member should have his stance about cancer research in his program, that's what he sold/promised to people who voted for them.