You never have been elected to a high federal post? In some ways if you are corrupt enough it has got to be there.

In Canada if you are elected and favored you get to sit on various arangements for forty thousand a pop or more. Thats if you attend or not. The general public is just told you get perhaps 200k a year. I would think most congessmen are nailing down more than enough to consider it a free luch at least. Excuse my cynical ways I just cannot help it.