Trump administration will ban lobbyists, enact five-year lobbying ban after leaving government - Polidicks

[quote=washingtonpost.com]Donald Trump’s transition team on Wednesday announced that registered state and federal lobbyists will not be allowed to serve in the Trump administration, and people who leave the administration will have to wait five years before they can become lobbyists. “It goes back to Trump’s goal to make sure people aren’t using government to enrich themselves,” transition spokesman Sean Spicer said on a call with reporters. “The key thing for this administration is going to be that people going out of government won’t be able to use that service to enrich themselves for a five-year period.” Every person who joins the administration will be asked to sign a lobbying ban form that states they are not a registered lobbyist. If they are, they will have to provide evidence of their termination. The policy comes after days of criticism over Trump’s inclusion of lobbyists on the transition team, despite his campaign pledge to keep special interests out of Washington.[/quote] [url]https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2016/11/16/trump-administration-will-ban-lobbyists-enact-five-year-lobbying-ban-after-leaving-government/[/url]

Hm, so he has lobbyists on the transition team but not in the administration? That seems.. Reasonable?

[QUOTE]On its face, the lobbyist ban appears stringent, but it could be easily skirted if a lobbyist were to deregister to be eligible to join the administration. One sign indicates that it may already be happening: A close aide to Pence who is a Washington lobbyist, Josh Pitcock, filed paperwork with the Senate on Monday to terminate his status as a federal lobbyist. Pitcock advised Pence during the presidential campaign, and has lobbied for the state of Indiana since 2013, earning $280,000 a year to lobby on a wide range of issues including health-care marketplace exchange rates and resources for the state’s response to the Zika virus, lobbying records show. Pitcock did not immediately return a request for comment.[/QUOTE] hey look a loophole, better take care of that mister president!

[QUOTE=srobins;51389178]Hm, so he has lobbyists on the transition team but not in the administration? That seems.. Reasonable?[/QUOTE] On the surface it seems goood... However, Cabinet positions front runner of Treasury, Energy, education, interior have Wall Street, Oil companies, Charter School links respectively.

Hardly matters to ban [I]presidential[/I] lobbying, when it is congressional lobbying that poses the real problem.

[QUOTE=Cructo;51389200]didn't pence purge most of the lobbyists from the transition team though[/QUOTE] no he purged chris christie's team and brought in his own

[QUOTE=bitches;51389211]Hardly matters to ban [I]presidential[/I] lobbying, when it is congressional lobbying that poses the real problem.[/QUOTE] Also, shouldn't celebrate at all, since cabinet positions are going to people with links to wall street, Oil, and Charter schools already. Like I said in another Thread Purely PR. Edit: we also kinda dodged a bullet, until today Steven Mnuchin was Frontrunner for treasury. Sound familiar?, He was the main villain who caused the crash of 2008 [editline]17th November 2016[/editline] [QUOTE=Sableye;51389218]no he purged chris christie's team and brought in his own[/QUOTE] It's probably true but source?

[QUOTE=OmniConsUme;51389207]On the surface it seems goood... However, Cabinet positions front runner of Treasury, Energy, education, interior have Wall Street, Oil companies, Charter School links respectively.[/QUOTE] Dunno, I'm holding in my outrage until the picks are actually confirmed. Not that I have much faith in Trump to appoint reasonable and worthy people to the administration, but considering the media has been changing the story every hour and publishing straight up rumors for the past week or two I can't really trust them anymore.

I feel like non-profit lobbying groups should be allowed. You know, like environmental or educational groups. Corporate lobbying is a cancer on American politics, though.

This is reasonable. However, for every one good thing that appears to be a part of Trump's presidency, 2 more bad things occur. Hope that evens out.

[QUOTE=joshuadim;51389458]This is reasonable. However, for every one good thing that appears to be a part of Trump's presidency, 2 more bad things occur. Hope that evens out.[/QUOTE] He's got a way round it anyway so he's just trying to trick people into thinking he's doing shit

[QUOTE=Zang-Pog;51390688]This is purely PR, there is no need for lobbying on presidential level because Trump already has people in his cabinet that are doing just that. This changes absolutely nothing and this decision was made just for Trump to look good while he's shitting all over everything[/QUOTE] What about him already pushing Congressional term limits and Paul Ryan coming out in support of it this week? - that is HUGE Or do you have a baseless ad-hom attack ready for that talking point as well

Funny, Obama actually had [URL="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/21/AR2009012103472.html?tid=a_inl"]more stringent rules[/URL] on lobbyists in government already. Obama barred anyone from being appointed to a position that they had lobbied in for two years, AND banned them from lobbying for the entirety of their appointment. Trump can hire lobbyists so long as they stop any lobbying the day before their appointment - his ban is [I]after[/I] their appointment ends, Obama's was [I]before it started[/I]. Obama's didn't work because they just became consultants and analysts instead of appointed advisers. Trump's won't work either, especially since a lobbyist can quit their job and join his staff even with a conflict of interest two days before.

[QUOTE=Stick it in her pooper;51391049]What about him already pushing Congressional term limits and Paul Ryan coming out in support of it this week? - that is HUGE Or do you have a baseless ad-hom attack ready for that talking point as well[/QUOTE] Except McConnell is against Term limits.

Wasn't this already posted with his 100 day plan?

[QUOTE=Stick it in her pooper;51391049]What about him already pushing Congressional term limits and Paul Ryan coming out in support of it this week? - that is HUGE[/QUOTE] What he promised to do does not reflect what he has actually been doing.

Apparently there is a loophole as big as the plan itself. Just Literally De-register, and once you get past five years the company can pay you all of the money you earned.