3.0.0 3274 2023-01-11T13:41:47Z 2023-01-11T13:41:47Z Senate S 2018-07-25 115 ssra00 Rules and Administration Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2018-07-25T21:26:29Z CLEAN Politics Act of 2018 115 6533 HR 2018-10-01 Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice. Related bill CRS 2018-07-25 ssra00 Rules and Administration Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration. IntroReferral 2018-07-25 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress B001267 Sen. Bennet, Michael F. [D-CO] Michael Bennet D CO N Government Operations and Politics Congressional elections Elections, voting, political campaign regulation Government ethics and transparency, public corruption Government information and archives Licensing and registrations Members of Congress Public participation and lobbying Government Operations and Politics 00 2018-07-25 Introduced in Senate 2019-08-19T20:05:32Z Curtailing Lobbying and Empowering Americans for a New Politics Act of 2018 or the CLEAN Act of 2018

This bill modifies various lobbying restrictions and requirements.

Among other things, the bill does the following:

  • broadens the scope of lobbying activities that trigger registration and disclosure requirements,
  • limits bundled campaign contributions by lobbyists,
  • prohibits congressional candidates from soliciting campaign contributions from lobbyists while Congress is in session, and
  • requires certain agents of foreign commercial entities to register as lobbyists.
]]> CLEAN Act of 2018 Display Title CLEAN Act of 2018 Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 to require an individual to register as a lobbyist under such Act if the individual is employed or retained by a client for making more than one lobbying contact over a 2-year period and to treat legislative, political, and strategic counseling in support of lobbying contacts as lobbying activity under such Act, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced CLEAN Act of 2018 Short Titles as Introduced Curtailing Lobbying and Empowering Americans for a New Politics Act of 2018 Introduced in Senate 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-115s3274is/xml/BILLS-115s3274is.xml 2018-07-25 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.