Obama Administration Announces Ethics Rules for Transition Team

Of note. Today, John Podesta announced the strictest ethics rules ever utilized in any transition effort. To Barack Obama's credit, this is yet another step in the "Change" that he promised, that of reducing the influence of special interests. Kudos to the Obama administration.
The rules, verbatim, from Real Clear Politics:

• Federal lobbyists cannot contribute financially to the transition.
• Federal lobbyists are prohibited from any lobbying during their work with the transition.
• If someone has lobbied in the last 12 months, they are prohibited from working in the fields of policy on which they lobbied.
• If 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.
• A gift ban that is aggressive in reducing the influence of special interests.

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