President-elect Barack Obama is keeping his promise of his government not having any influences by lobbyists. His presidential Campaign was funded entirely by individual contributions by people. He once said:
“Although corporations deserve a seat at the table, they do not get to buy every chair.”
During a meeting with reporteers yesterday, John Podesta, the co-chair of Barack Obama’s White House transition announced the strictest, and most far reaching ethics rules of any transition team in history.
• Federal Lobbyists cannot contribute financially to the transition.
• Federal lobbyists are prohibited from any lobbying during their work with the transition.
• If someone has lobbied in the last 12 months, they are prohibited from working in the fields of policy on which they lobbied.
• If someone becomes a lobbyist after working on the transition, they are prohibited from lobbying the Administration for 12 months on matters on which they worked.
• A gift ban that is aggressive in reducing the influence of special interests.
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