Whenever I hear about corporate influence in Washington I think of Lawrence Lessig's Ted Talk on the need for campaign finance reform:

http://www.ted.com/talks/lawrence_lessig_we_the_people_and_t...

"Change the incentives and you change the behavior."

And the key point: SOLVABLE.

I hope people pick up on his point that regardless of what a person's top priority might be, fixing this problem should be our first priority.