"Efforts by special interest groups to shape legislation in their own interests"

Much congressional legislation is actually written, word for word, by industry lobbyists, tailored made to suit their needs with titles masking their intentions, and submitted by members of the Senate and the House. 
It's wide spread, and been the way the system works for some time. I'm confident that Mr. Lind could expound on this perversion of representative democracy much better than I.
It's as if politicians are sub-contractors to corporate industry, while posturing that they are serving the people's interests.