I think a law would be ideal, but I have little hopes of that being passed (similar to Trumps plan to add term limits), the lobbyists don't like it and they control the purses and the purses control the congressmen/women.
One complaint I heard on a Washington, DC forum was that it would destroy DC culture. I imagine "lobbyist struggling to make ends meet after being laid off" might be an angle.
> The five-year ban will make it harder for Trump to recruit people to work in the administration.
I imagine anyone in Washington who knows how things run is a lobbyist of some sort. Wonder how or who they'd have to hire who wasn't some insider of sorts. If people don't know the system they'll probably make mistakes or take too long to get started. If they know too much they are probably corrupt and lobbying for someone else as well.
Sadly I think this is nothing but smoke and mirrors, an attempt to appear to "clean up" Washington whilst at the same time doing as little as possible to actually sort out the problems at hand.
Wasn't he talking about term limits. Let's see how well the Congress will like the idea to enact term limits for the ... Congress.
Legislature is funny like that. They can change the rules which are used to make the rules so to speak. But I want to see him pull that off.
In other words, this is meaningless for people being hired into the administration, and of course they can become lobbyists again after they leave government service.
Is that public information? Sounds like a good service to American society?
