Former-official lobbyists
Also called revolving door, covered position
People who worked as congressional staff or senior executive-branch officials and now lobby; their past posts are disclosed on lobbying reports.
How are past posts disclosed?
The Lobbying Disclosure Act requires a lobbyist to list any covered official position held in the previous 20 years, such as a member's staff, committee staff or senior executive-branch posts.
A company hiring such lobbyists is often read as drawing on their ties to the offices they served in.
A lobbying client's page on Whalegun lists its former-official lobbyists and the posts they reported.
See it on Whalegun
More terms in this area
- Lobbying Disclosure ActA 1995 US law that makes lobbying of Congress and the executive branch, and what it costs, public every quarter.
- Foreign Agents Registration ActA 1938 US law requiring anyone doing political or publicity work in the US for a foreign government, party or company to register with the Justice Department.