Not officially no. They can influence those who write the bills and/or pass bills.
It was outside of the political sphere that Gingrich got the republicans to vote for the funding of solar radiation management (supported by Trump). It was sold as a compromise to climate change. I believe in 2019 funding was earmarked in the first COVID bill to Harvard, 20 million to start testing and to be implemented in 2022.
If our Congress folks don’t write bills or read bills, what do they do?
Heh, I think your last sentence of your post outlined exactly the conundrum as citizens we find ourselves in, FRiend.
It means we aren’t being governed.
It means our tax money is being extracted for their own personal use.
It means we are enslaved.