Support legislation to ban high-level former U.S. government employees from lobbying for countries of concern such as Russia and China.

ban high-level former U.S. government employees from lobbying for countries of concern like Russia and China

Cornyn promoted the CLEAR Path Act after Senate passage and urged House passage, saying it would ban high-level former U.S. officials from lobbying for countries of concern.

Cornyn, Colleagues Bill to Mitigate Foreign Influence on U.S. Policymaking Passes Senate - Senator Cornyn
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DOJ describes FARA as requiring certain agents of foreign principals engaged in covered activities to make periodic public disclosures of their relationship, activities, receipts and disbursements. It describes administration and enforcement by DOJ's FARA Unit, not a lobbying ban.

Current FARA framework is disclosure-based. It does not itself fulfill a promise to ban high-level former U.S. officials from lobbying for Russia, China, or other countries of concern.

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Foreign Agents Registration Act | U.S. Department of Justice
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Subsection 207(f) imposes a one-year restriction on persons subject to certain post-employment limits who represent, aid, or advise a foreign entity with intent to influence U.S. officials; former U.S. Trade Representatives face a permanent version of that restriction.

Federal law contains limited post-employment foreign-entity restrictions, but they are time-limited for most covered officials and are not a new Cornyn-backed country-of-concern lobbying ban.

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18 U.S. Code § 207 - Restrictions on former officers, employees, and elected officials of the executive and legislative branches
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The Trump ethics pledge said appointees would not, after leaving government, engage in activity on behalf of any foreign government or foreign political party that would require FARA registration. This was an executive order pledge, not legislation.

An executive-branch ethics order temporarily resembled part of the promised policy, but it was not legislation and was not limited to countries of concern such as Russia and China.

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Executive Order 13770: Ethics Commitments by Executive Branch Appointees
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The revocation order states that Executive Order 13770 was revoked effective at noon January 20, 2021, and that employees and former employees subject to its commitments would not be subject to those commitments after that time.

The executive-order foreign-lobbying pledge was rescinded before Cornyn's 2021-2027 Senate term began, leaving no enacted executive substitute for the promised legislation.

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Executive Order on the Revocation of Executive Order 13770
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