They mostly don't, people just like being cynical. Though, legislators don't have individual power to take action to be worth giving specific bribes to; what m

They mostly don't, people just like being cynical. Though, legislators don't have individual power to take action to be worth giving specific bribes to; what may happen is that if someone is friendly to your business, you want to keep them motivated to keep re-running for Congress and do the awful annoying job of being a legislator, when they could instead quit and go back to industry or retire on the beach or whatever.