What Obama is actually proposing is a ban on any political appointee in an Obama administration from working on regulations or contracts "substantially related to their prior employer for two years," as well as a ban on an employer offering a "generous severance package" to induce a worker to take a job with a government agency that regulates his employer.
Obama also has plans to close the revolving doors, where people jump from government jobs to work for the industries they regulated.
Sounds like a pretty good ban on lobyists to me. Sure you can nitpick it and set up scenarios where a lobyist could get in. But for all intents and purposes its a ban on lobyists.
Whats your girl proposing wyldwolf other than laying out the red carpet?
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