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Publication Date: February 2008
Publisher: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
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Research Area: Government
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On January 4, 2007, the House adopted new internal House Rules to prohibit the receipt of most gifts by Members and staff from lobbyists, agents of a foreign principals, and certain organizations that employ lobbyists or foreign agents. In addition, the new House Rules will put into place by March 1, 2007, many more restrictions and requirements concerning the acceptance of travel expenses for "officially connected" travel by Members and staff from outside private sources, specifically to further restrict and limit the participation and involvement of lobbyists, foreign agents, or their clients in such travel events, and to provide for more transparency and disclosures of any such travel.