Title: 
Headings: Post-Employment, “Revolving Door,” Laws for Federal Personnel
Post-Employment,
 
“Revolving
 
Door,”
 
Laws
 
for
 
Federal
 
Personnel
 

Jack
 
Maskell
 

January
 
7,
 
2014
 

Congressional
 
Research
 
Service
 

Summary
 

Background:
 
Legislative
 
History
 
and
 
Intent
 
of
 
Provisions
 

Executive
 
Branch—Representational
 
Activities
 


 
Lifetime
 
Ban
 
on
 
“Switching
 
Sides”
 

2.
 
Two-Year
 
Ban
 
on
 
“Switching
 
Sides”
 

3.
 
Representations
 
in
 
Treaty
 
or
 
Trade
 
Negotiations
 

4.
 
“Senior”
 
Officials:
 
One-Year
 
“Cooling
 
Off”
 
Period
 

5.
 
“Very
 
Senior”
 
Officials:
 
Two-Year
 
“Cooling
 
Off”
 
Period
 

6.
 
Representing
 
Foreign
 
Governments
 

7.
 
Presidential
 
and
 
Vice-Presidential
 
“Appointees”
 
in
 
Obama
 
Administration
  

Bank
 
Examiners
 

Procurement
 
Officials
 

Negotiating
 
Private
 
Employment
 

Executive
 
Branch
 

Legislative
 
Branch
 

Legislative
 
Branch—Representational
 
Activities
 

1.
 
“Cooling
 
Off”
 
Periods
 
on
 
Lobbying
 
or
 
Advocacy
 

2.
 
Trade
 
or
 
Treaty
 
Negotiations
 

3.
 
Representing
 
Foreign
 
Governments
 

4.
 
Lobbying
 
Restrictions
 
on
 
Senate
 
Staff
 

5.
 
Floor
 
Privileges
 
of
 
Former
 
Members
 

6.
 
Acceptance
 
of
 
Civil
 
Office
 
by
 
Retiring
 
Member
 
of
 
Congress
 

Author
 
Contact
 
Infrmation
 


Content: (3)
 
a
 
one-year
 
restriction
 
on
 
assisting
 
others
 
on
 
certain
 
trade
 
or
 
treaty
 
negotiations; (4)
 
a
 
one-year
 
“cooling
 
off”
 
period
 
for
 
certain
 
“senior”
 
officials
 
barring
 
representational
 
communications
 
to
 
and
 
attempts
 
to
 
influence
 
persons
 
in
 
their
 
former
 
departments
 
or
 
agencies; (5)
 
a
 
new
 
two-year
 
“cooling
 
off”
 
period
 
for
 
“very
 
senior”
 
officials
 
barring
 
representational
 
communications
 
to
 
and
 
attempts
 
to
 
influence
 
certain
 
other
 
high-
ranking
 
officials
 
in
 
the
 
entire
 
executive
 
branch
 
of
 
government; and
 
(6)
 
a
 
one-year
 
ban
 
on
 
certain
 
former
 
high-level
 
officials
 
performing
 
certain
 
representational
 
or
 
advisory
 
activities
 
for
 
foreign
 
governments
 
or
 
foreign
 
political
 
parties. In
 
the
 
legislative
 
branch,
 
this
 
law
 
applies
 
the
 
one-year
 
“cooling
 
off”
 
period,
 
as
 
well
 
as
 
the
 
restrictions
 
on
 
representations
 
on
 
behalf
 
of
 
official
 
foreign
 
entities
 
and
 
assistance
 
in
 
trade
 
negotiations,
 
to
 
Members
 
of
 
the
 
House
 
and
 
to
 
senior
 
legislative
 
staff. United
 
States
 
Senators
 
are
 
subject
 
to
 
a
 
two-year
 
“cooling
 
off”
 
period
 
in
 
which
 
they
 
may
 
not
 
lobby
 
Congress
 
after
 
leaving
 
the
 
Senate. “Procurement
 
personnel”
 
in
 
federal
 
agencies
 
are
 
not
 
only
 
limited
 
in
 
their
 
post-employment
 
representational,
 
lobbying,
 
or
 
advocacy
 
activities
 
on
 
behalf
 
of
 
private
 
entities
 
after
 
leaving
 
government
 
service,
 
but
 
they
 
are
 
also
 
prohibited
 
from
 
receiving
 
compensation
 
from
 
certain
 
private
 
contractors
 
for
 
a
 
period
 
of
 
time
 
after
 
being
 
responsible
 
for
 
procurement
 
action
 
on
 
certain
 
large
 
contracts
 
as
 
government
 
officials. Procurement
 
personnel
 
also
 
have
 
additional
 
rules
 
on
 
reporting
 
“contacts”
 
from
 
prospective
 
employers
 
who
 
are
 
government
 
contractors. The
 
provisions
 
of
 
an
 
executive
 
order
 
issued
 
by
 
President
 
Obama
 
on
 
January
 
21,
 
2009,
 
impose
 
stricter
 
limits
 
on
 
certain
 
executive
 
branch
 
personnel. Full
 
time,
 
non-career
 
presidential
 
and
 
vice-
presidential
 
appointees,
 
including
 
non-career
 
appointees
 
in
 
the
 
Senior
 
Executive
 
Service,
 
and
 
excepted
 
service
 
confidential,
 
policy-making
 
appointees,
 
are
 
barred
 
after
 
leaving
 
the
 
Administration
 
from
 
“lobbying”
 
any
 
executive
 
branch
 
official
 
“covered”
 
by
 
the
 
Lobbying
 
Disclosure
 
Act
 
(2
 
U.S.C.
 
§1602(3)),
 
or
 
any
 
non-career
 
SES
 
appointee,
 
for
 
the
 
remainder
 
of
 
the
 
Administration.