[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 351 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 351

  To amend section 207 of title 18, United States Code, to ban former 
  Senators and Members of the House of Representatives from lobbying 
       Congress and the executive branch, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 12, 2023

Mr. Van Orden introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend section 207 of title 18, United States Code, to ban former 
  Senators and Members of the House of Representatives from lobbying 
       Congress and the executive branch, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Ban Congressmen Lobbyists Act''.

SEC. 2. LIFETIME LOBBYING BAN FOR FORMER MEMBERS OF CONGRESS.

    (a) Lobbying the Executive Branch.--Section 207(e)(1) of title 18, 
United States Code, is amended by adding at the end a new subparagraph:
                    ``(C) Members of congress and the executive 
                branch.--Any person who is a Member of the House of 
                Representatives or a Senator and who, at any point 
                after that person leaves office, knowingly makes, with 
                the intent to influence, any communication to or 
                appearance before any officer or employee of any 
                department, agency, court, or court-martial of the 
                United States on behalf of any other person (except the 
                United States) in connection with a particular matter--
                            ``(i) in which the United States is a party 
                        or has a direct and substantial interest,
                            ``(ii) in which the person participated 
                        personally and substantially as such officer or 
                        employee, and
                            ``(iii) which involved a specific party or 
                        specific parties at the time of such 
                        participation,
                shall be punished as provided in section 216 of this 
                title.''.
    (b) Lobbying Congress.--Section 207(e)(1) of title 18, United 
States Code, is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (A) by striking ``, within 2 years 
        after'' and inserting ``, at any point after''; and
            (2) in subparagraph (B)--
                    (A) in clause (i) by striking ``Any person who is a 
                Member'' and inserting ``Except as provided in clause 
                (iv), any person who is a Member''; and
                    (B) by adding at the end the following new clause:
                            ``(iv) In the case of a person who is a 
                        Member of the House of Representatives referred 
                        to in clause (i), the restriction under such 
                        clause applies to such person at any point 
                        after such person leaves office.''.
    (c) Application.--The amendments made by this section shall apply 
to any person who is a Member of Congress during the One Hundred and 
Eighteenth Congress or any succeeding Congress.
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