One year wait for lobbying relaxed ... Xmas bonus for recently leaving Bush administration officials !

Blog for America: "Friday, December 17, 2004

...and Don't Let the Golden Parachute Hit You on the Way Out

Until now, senior officials at Cabinet departments and agencies had not been allowed to lobby former colleagues for a full year after leaving office — a rule designed to prevent an obvious conflict of interest. But, in a notice in the Federal Register, the ethics office issued a new rule invoking its power to declare that "a former senior employee who served in a 'parent' department or agency is not barred . . . from making communications to or appearances before any employee of any designated component of that parent."