Les élus américains ont tendance à se faire joyeusement financer à quelques jours des votes importants.
Lawmakers seek cash during key votes
►http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/25/AR2010122502236.html
Numerous times this year, members of Congress have held fundraisers and collected big checks while they are taking critical steps to write new laws, despite warnings that such actions could create ethics problems. The campaign donations often came from contributors with major stakes riding on the lawmakers’ actions.
For three weeks in June, for instance, the members of a joint House and Senate committee worked to draft final rules for regulating the financial industry in the wake of its 2008 meltdown. During that time, the 35 members of the drafting committee collected $440,000 in donations from that same industry, which was then lobbying heavily for looser rules.