... what? That makes no sense. It would be a net gain for the bribers and usurists. In exchange for paying out four or five times the bribes, which is easy since these freaking people only cost a quarter mil, and in exchange they get a nearly infinite smokescreen for shady behavior.

These days if a dozen corrupt reps get taken down it can change votes. With fifteen hundred it wouldn't matter. Hell you'd have to create an entire federal agency just to stalk these people and surveil them just to stop the insider stock trading.