{"id":332522,"date":"2026-05-14T13:28:42","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T13:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/senators-introduce-ban-on-lawmakers-becoming-lobbyists.html"},"modified":"2026-05-14T13:28:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T13:28:42","slug":"senators-introduce-ban-on-lawmakers-becoming-lobbyists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/senators-introduce-ban-on-lawmakers-becoming-lobbyists.html","title":{"rendered":"Senators introduce ban on lawmakers becoming lobbyists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"MainContent\">\n<header class=\"ArticleHeader-articleHeader\" id=\"main-article-header\"><span>WATCH LIVE<\/span><\/header>\n<p><span class=\"HighlightShare-hidden\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The new bill, which is unlikely to become law, would hold violators to a penalty of $50,000 per violation or up to five years in jail.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Trust in our institutions is at an all-time low, and the revolving door between Capitol Hill and K Street is a big part of that,&#8221; Scott said in a statement to CNBC. &#8220;We need to restore the American people&#8217;s trust in their government, and that&#8217;s why I&#8217;m proud to introduce this bipartisan bill to put government clearly back on the side of the people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Article source: https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/05\/14\/congress-senators-lobbying-ban.html<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WATCH LIVE The new bill, which is unlikely to become law, would hold violators to a penalty of $50,000 per violation or up to five years in jail. &#8220;Trust in our institutions is at an all-time low, and the revolving door between Capitol Hill and K Street is a big part of that,&#8221; Scott said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-332522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","tag-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}