I strongly disagree.
Laws regarding influence peddling should be rigorously enforced, and everyone involved should be subject to extremely close scrutiny.
The US government claims to be "of, by, and for the people". Lobbying (influence peddling by another name) should ONLY be allowed by INDIVIDUALS and CITIZENS, not corporate interests, as was originally intended!
You must've missed the part where I required the congressmen to tattoo their corporate sponsors on their forehead with ink that takes a few years to fade away.
Which means you must've missed the fact that it was an obvious joke, with the implication that the congressmen would all look like those classifieds flyers.
And really, isn't the whole problem that they manage to hide their acceptance of bribes, gifts, and venereal diseases? While they are required to report their participation in these sponsored trips, they aren't required to do so in a place that is easily indexed, searched, and displayed prominently. Aside from the illegal bribes, most of what goes on in D.C. is legal but obscure.