Some of the arguments made by the lobbyists deserve pushback even if you're secretly in their camp just because of how absurd they are.

Given this isn't happening, I'm not 100% convinced the senators are doing this on purpose or if they're legitimately too stupid to understand the argument at play. Furthermore I remember Louis Rossmann saying in one of his videos that one senator turned out to not even be checking his official government e-mail account... that's not someone I would entrust with understanding anything even remotely related to technology.

> do they get something out of it?

"robust conversations"