Bank examiners and inspectors are prohibited for one year following their term with s Federal Reserve bank or Federal banking agency from receiving any compensation as an "employee, officer, director, or consultant" of institutions intertwined with banks which fell under their inspection duties.
Likewise, procurement officials who worked on behalf of government departments or agencies are prohibited for one year from acting in any way which entails receiving compensation from certain private contractors in related industries and segments.
There are, lastly, heavy restrictions on the rights of employees of the government to negotiate post-government employment while still working for the United States.
Consider the following marks on the timeline of regulation of the revolving door:
In 1969 the United States was involved in a Cold War in which its defense industry was central to its own physical survival. This Cold War had become hot in certain places, especially Vietnam, and threatened nuclear war on various fronts, especially Europe and Asia. An ethical Department of Defense, ethical contracts agreed to and performed under it, and ethical performance of those contracts were therefore vital to the security of the country and high on the agenda of political leaders at that time.
Though the 1970s were characterized by economic issues, in particular "stagflation," by the 1980s the renewed and much more dangerous arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union again brought to the forefront the vitality of ethics around the Department of Defense. Moreover, the 1970s and 1980s saw the growth and development of such an array of new government departments and programs that the Department of Defense was no longer the single entity around which restrictions must be designed. In addition, what was once restricted to the Department of Defense now needed extension to cover a far broader array of government officials in the face of growing distrust of the motives guiding their conduct in the wake of Richard Nixon's resignation in 1974 and various other illegal and unethical happenings surrounding public officials. The coming end of the Soviet Union did not seem to deign a decrease in ethical regulations a reality, instead portending a need for an increase of such restrictions.
Following a decade of prosperity and security in the 1990s, the 2000s were characterized by a large-scale terrorist attack to start the decade and a financial debacle heavily related to porous oversight of important banking establishments to end it. By the time of the Obama election in November, 2008, public distrust of their own government was alarmingly prevalent due to repeated instances of the government being caught with its own pants down. A stronger code of ethical restrictions, lasting for longer periods and covering far more individuals within and around the government, seems like it would be the natural response of an ambitious opportunist, for good or for bad.
The unstated issue in all of this is the growing government which is incompatible with the republican form for which it was intended. The United States Constitution sets out a carefully limited federal government which was to be monitored and controlled by the citizens responsible for the positions of its members. The small size of the government allowed citizens to see and analyze the performance of relevant officials; there was no easy mask with which to hide abuses or mistakes.
Where public officials are visible they can be held accountable for their conduct and for the motives guiding it. Where public officials are not visible, they are liable to abuse or misuse the powers with which they are entrusted and to mistake those powers for rights, which are a separate issue altogether. No maxim of administration is surer than that, and it is verified by the experience and wisdom of the ages, with virtually no examples to the contrary.
Accordingly, the republican form of government adopted by the United States, or the representative democracy, to be more specific, contained the usual provisions for restricting terms of office, which necessarily entailed a revolving door of some sort. This was an expected part of the process of government and one which was not considered to be dangerous because it was countered by the small size of the said government and the mechanisms for holding government accountable, up to and including removal from office of offenders against the "code."
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