“I was elected to lead, not to read.”
The elected folks are puppet actors. Very much like news readers, stage craft, theater and film. They read the lines but at bottom, they have zero ability to control the eventual produciton - other than their acting ability may get them rewarded with a long-term assignment in the theater.
The bills are written by lobbyists or by the WH lawyers. Congress drafts maybe 1% of what it passes. Members are briefed on the contents (peobably misled as much as the public is), and then speech or not and vote in whatever way they figure is in their PERSONAL best interest.
Similar charade with oversight.
You are watching a movie, and you don’t even know who the writer and director are.
On the plus side, we do get to choose who the actors are.