{"id":7222,"date":"2008-11-14T08:35:57","date_gmt":"2008-11-14T05:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=7222"},"modified":"2011-09-01T19:32:06","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T16:32:06","slug":"obama-transition-announces-rules-for-lobbyists-in-transition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2008\/11\/14\/obama-transition-announces-rules-for-lobbyists-in-transition\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Transition Announces Rules for Lobbyists in Transition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During a briefing today at the Presidential Transition Team headquarters, Obama Transition Co-Chair John Podesta announced the strictest, and most far reaching ethics rules of any transition team in history. The rules are:<\/p>\n<p>Federal Lobbyists cannot contribute financially to the transition.<br \/>\nFederal lobbyists are prohibited from any lobbying during their work with the transition.<br \/>\nIf someone has lobbied in the last 12 months, they are prohibited from working in the fields of policy on which they lobbied.<br \/>\nIf 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.<br \/>\nA gift ban that is aggressive in reducing the influence of special interests.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related article in Turkish :<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/tr\/content\/2008\/11\/14\/turkiye%E2%80%99den-obama-icin-6-lobici\/\">https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/tr\/content\/2008\/11\/14\/turkiye\u2019den-obama-icin-6-lobici\/<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a briefing today at the Presidential Transition Team headquarters, Obama Transition Co-Chair John Podesta announced the strictest, and most far reaching ethics rules of any transition team in history. The rules are: Federal Lobbyists cannot contribute financially to the transition. Federal lobbyists are prohibited from any lobbying during their work with the transition. If [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":42224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[145],"class_list":["post-7222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usa","tag-barack-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}