NBC notes, "This [These findings] shouldn't be too shocking, and it's [they are] not necessarily damning. Lobbyists are not inherently bad guys -- many represent nonprofit groups, notable causes, and interests of concern to many individuals. (In this study, however, Brodback secured permission to use the name of a real company as his client, and it was made clear that he was representing a business interest.) Plus, lobbyists often have concrete proposals to discuss, rather than just offering their sense of legislation."
Moreover, "Senators also do not have time to meet directly with everyone who wants to drop by, nor do their staff members. In theory, that's what the House of Representatives was set up for, but that's less and less possible now, with each House member representing 700,000 people, or about 25 times as many as when the Constitution was drafted."
On the other hand, the author of the piece on NBC, P.J. Orvetti, at least makes the suggestion that the Senate and Congress need to have a greater number of representatives in order to give more access to the private American. Orvetti wrote, "Though the notion of a Congress of a thousand representatives or more may make government-bashers queasy, it would make each one more attentive to citizens. Others say social media and other new technologies will solve the problem, by making it easier for legislators to communicate directly with citizens."
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