Jeffrey Sachs talks about the problem with lobbyists:

Lobbyists for powerful corporations are crawling over every piece of pending legislation- from health care, to banking regulation, to climate change — keeping a chokehold on deep reforms. Jankowsky says that lobbying is transparent. . . . Special interests have already spent $2.5 billion dollars this year on 13,000 lobbyists like Mr. Jankowsky and his colleagues at the firm Akin Gump, with many contributing their expertise to gutting financial oversight of Wall Street, delaying control of greenhouse gas emissions, and preventing real controls on health insurance costs.