Congress, interest groups gear up for highway bill

As discussed in class on Wednesday, lobbyist groups spend large amounts of money advocating to legislators for their causes. With that said, I think many of these groups should start investing more of their money into the actual implementation of their desired projects. I realize that some groups do in fact donate money to such funds, but think that their money would be more wisely spent if they directed their money towards their projects' implementation, rather than using their resources to "buy off' legislators. Personally, I think that with the public's growing distrust in Congress' relations with lobbyist groups, having these groups show that their money is going directly the execution of such a project instead of paying for a Congressman's fine dining bill or luxury vacation would sway the public to rally more favorably towards their cause. I think that plenty of people would favor Congress' decision to pass a $470 billion dollar program to re-vamp the transportation system, if they were to know that the special interest groups advocating the project, were actually going to be paying for a substantial part of the bill. Sure, this course of action would not give legislators the exclusive "perks" they seem to enjoy, but if the public had a more positive view on Congress' actions, maybe this could persuade voters to keep them in office.