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“Agencies should track pledge signing, the Office of Government Ethics should write and explain the pledge, and OGE should study lobbying disclosure and whether revolving-door limits should cover more workers.”
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“Covered appointees should have to avoid government work for a time when it is closely tied to recent employers, clients, lobbying work, or conflicts such as a spouse's employment.”
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“Federal criminal conflict-of-interest law should cover top Executive Schedule officials, special government employees, and Executive Office of the President staff, while leaving many other executive branch and independent agency employees outside this criminal statute.”
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“The 2-year lobbying wait should cover senior executive officials and appointees, Members of Congress, elected House and Senate officers, and certain congressional and legislative office staff.”
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“Officials who violate the revised conflict-of-interest coverage and recusal standards should face enforcement through an existing federal criminal conflict statute, not only agency ethics policies or civil discipline.”
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“Officials who break financial ethics rules should face clear consequences that are strong enough to matter.”
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“Full-time senior political appointees in executive agencies should have to sign a written ethics pledge when they start, using existing ethics and lobbying definitions and adding to other ethics laws instead of replacing them.”
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“Covered officials should have to step aside from government matters that affect organizations where they currently serve, recently worked, represented, advised, contracted, competed, or actively participate.”
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“Top federal officials should have strict limits on investments that could create conflicts between public duty and personal gain.”
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“Only the federal government should be able to enforce the ethics pledge, with agencies investigating possible violations and the Attorney General able to seek federal investigations or civil lawsuits.”
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“Covered appointees should not accept gifts from registered lobbyists or lobbying organizations, and the Office of Government Ethics should extend that gift ban across executive branch employees with limited exceptions.”
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“During the 2-year waiting period, covered former officials should be barred from lobbying a broad range of people working in federal agencies and Congress, not only senior officials or former colleagues.”
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“Former appointees who violate the ethics pledge should face possible added bans on lobbying their old agency, and federal courts should be able to stop violations or recover money earned from prohibited work.”
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“People who violate the revised post-employment ethics limits should face the existing federal penalties for these violations, which can include civil penalties, criminal penalties, fines, and prison time.”
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“Active participation in certain tax-law political organizations should not, by itself, force a covered official to step aside under the new active-participant recusal category.”
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“Former covered appointees should face cooling-off limits on lobbying their old agency or top executive officials, and should be permanently barred from certain representative work for foreign governments or foreign political parties.”
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“The revised post-employment restrictions should apply only to people who leave covered federal jobs after the new limits take effect. People who left earlier would stay under the prior rules.”
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“Officials who are forced to sell investments for ethics reasons should have fair tax rules, but should not get a special benefit that weakens the ban.”
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“Former federal officials should have to wait 2 years before helping or advising others on certain trade or treaty negotiations when that work uses nonpublic information they learned in federal service.”
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“Former executive branch and congressional officials should have to wait 2 years after leaving federal service before contacting federal officials to influence government action for a client, employer, or other outside party.”
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“The OMB Director should be able to grant written exceptions from ethics pledge limits after consulting the White House Counsel, including for public-interest reasons, national security, economic emergencies, or very minor agency contact.”
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