More than a dozen lawmakers’ statements about the health care debate were ghostwritten by lobbyists working for Genentech, a biotechnology company […] In an interview, Representative Bill Pascrell Jr., Democrat of New Jersey, said: ‘I regret that the language was the same. I did not know it was.’ He said he got his statement from his staff and ‘did not know where they got the information from.’

— Teaser and excerpt from a New York Times article about lazy Congresscritters who let lobbyists (literally) do their talking for them.