Ethics Ground Rules About to Change for Senators

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Ethics Ground Rules About to Change for Senators
By CQ Staff | 7:00 AM; Sep. 14, 2007 |

By Bart Jansen, CQ Staff


Life in the Senate is about to change.

Senators will no longer be able to take gifts or junkets from lobbyists.

Senate spouses will be banned from the lobbying business, unless they were lobbyists before their spouse’s most recent election or before they married a senator.

Senators and their top aides will have to notify the Ethics Committee within three days when they begin negotiating new jobs.

Those are some of the changes that will take effect when President Bush signs a lobbying overhaul bill (S 1).

Bush is widely expected to sign the bill on Friday. Unless he uses his veto, it will become law by Saturday, whether or not it has been signed.

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