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Corporations and lobbyists representing corporations have been doing this awhile.

From Center For Public Integrity 2019 report, titled You elected them to write new laws. They’re letting corporations do it instead.

“This work proves what many people have suspected, which is just how much of the democratic process has been outsourced to special interests,” said Lisa Graves, co-director of Documented, which probes corporate manipulation of public policy. “It is both astonishing and disappointing to see how widespread … it is. Good lord, it’s an amazing thing to see.”