SEC. 2. SPECIAL RULES FOR HIGHLY PAID EXECUTIVE AP-
POINTEES AND MEMBERS OF CONGRESS AND
HIGHLY PAID CONGRESSIONAL EMPLOYEES.
(a) IN GENERAL.—
(1) APPEARANCES BEFORE AGENCY.—(A) Sec-
tion 207(d) of title 18, United States Code, is
amended by adding at the end thereof the following:
‘‘(3) 
RESTRICTIONS
ON
POLITICAL
AP-
POINTEES.—(A) In addition to the restrictions set
forth in subsection (a), (b), and (c) and paragraph
(1) of this subsection, any person who—
‘‘(i) serves in the position of President or
Vice President of the United States; or
‘‘(ii) is a full-time, noncareer Presidential,
Vice Presidential, or agency head appointee in
an executive agency whose rate of basic pay is
not less than $70,000 (adjusted for any COLA
after the date of enactment of the Ethics in
Government Reform Act of 1993) and is not an
appointee of the senior foreign service or solely
an appointee as a uniformed service commis-
sioned officer, and who, after termination of his
or her service or employment as such officer or
employee, knowingly makes, with the intent to
influence, any communication to or appearance
before any officer or employee of a department
or agency in which such person served within 5
years before such termination, during the pe-
riod beginning on the termination of service or
employment as such officer or employee and
ending 5 years after the termination of service
in the department or agency, on behalf of any
other person (except the United States), in con-
nection with any matter on which such person
seeks official action by any officer or employee
of such department or agency, shall be punished
as provided in section 216 of this title.
‘‘(B) In addition to the restrictions set forth in
subsections (a), (b), and (c) and paragraph (1) of
this subsection, any person whose position is listed
under section 5312 of title 5, or is employed in a
full-time, noncareer position in the Executive Office
of the President and whose rate of basic pay is not
less than $70,000 (adjusted for any COLA after the
date of enactment of the Ethics in Government Re-
form Act of 1993) and is not an appointee of the
senior foreign service or solely an appointee as a
uniformed service commissioned officer or is a full-
time, noncareer Presidential, Vice Presidential, or
agency head appointee in an executive agency whose
rate of basic pay is not less than $70,000 (adjusted
for any COLA after the date of enactment of the
Ethics in Government Reform Act of 1993) and is
not an appointee of the senior foreign service or
solely an appointee as a uniformed service commis-
sioned officer, and who, within 2 years after the ter-
mination of his or her service or employment as such
officer or employee, knowingly makes, with the in-
tent to influence, any communication to or appear-
ance before any person described in paragraph
(2)(B) on behalf of any other person (except the
United States), in connection with any matter on
which such person seeks official action by the person
described in paragraph (2)(B), shall be punished as
provided in section 216 of this title.
‘‘(C) In addition to the restrictions set forth in
subsections (a), (b), and (c) and paragraph (1) of
this subsection, any person whose position is listed
under section 5312 of title 5, or is employed in the
Executive Office of the President and whose basic
rate of pay is not less than $70,000 (adjusted for
any COLA after the date of enactment of the Ethics
in Government Reform Act of 1993) and is not an
appointee of the senior foreign service or solely an
appointee as a uniformed service commissioned offi-
cer, and who, after the termination of his or her
service or employment as such officer or employee,
knowingly makes, with the intent to influence, any
communication to or appearance before any officer
or employee of a department or agency with respect
to which the person had personal and substantial re-
sponsibility within 5 years before such termination,
during the period beginning on the termination of
service or employment as such officer or employee
and ending 5 years after the termination of personal
and substantial responsibility with respect to the de-
partment or agency, on behalf of any other person
(except the United States), in connection with any
matter on which such person seeks official action by
any officer or employee of such department or agen-
cy, shall be punished as provided in section 216 of
this title.
‘‘(D) For purposes of this paragraph, the term
‘‘personal and substantial responsibility’’ means,
with respect to a department or agency, ongoing de-
cision-making involvement in the budget, major pro-
grams, or personnel actions of the department or
agency, when acting both personally and substan-
tially.
‘‘(E) This paragraph shall not apply to an offi-
cer or employee who has served less than 90 days
before his or her service or employment as such offi-
cer or employee terminates.’’.
(B) The first sentence of section 207(h)(1) of
title 18, United States Code, is amended by insert-
ing after ‘‘subsection (c)’’ the following: ‘‘and sub-
section (d)(3)’’.
(C) Section 207(d)(1)(A) of title 18, United
States Code, is amended to read as follows:
‘‘(A) serves in the position of President or
Vice President of the United States,’’.
(2) FOREIGN AGENTS.—Section 207(f) of title
18, United States Code, is amended—
(A) by striking ‘‘foreign entity’’ each place
it appears and inserting ‘‘foreign national’’; and
(B) by striking paragraph (2) and insert-
ing the following:
‘‘(2) 
SPECIAL
RESTRICTIONS.—Any 
person
who—
‘‘(A)(i) serves in the position of President
or Vice President of the United States,
‘‘(ii) is a full-time, noncareer Presidential,
Vice Presidential, or agency head appointee in
an executive agency whose rate of basic pay is
not less than $70,000 (adjusted for any COLA
after the date of enactment of the Ethics in
Government Reform Act of 1993) and is not an
appointee of the senior foreign service or solely
an appointee as a uniformed service commis-
sioned officer,
‘‘(iii) is employed in a full-time, noncareer
position in the Executive Office of the President
whose rate of basic pay is not less than $70,000
(adjusted for any COLA after the date of en-
actment of the Ethics in Government Reform
Act of 1993) and is not an appointee of the
senior foreign service or solely an appointee as
a uniformed service commissioned officer, or
‘‘(iv) is a Member of Congress or employed
in a position by the Congress at a rate of pay
equal to or greater the $70,000 (adjusted for
any COLA after the date of enactment of the
Ethics in Government Reform Act of 1993),
and
‘‘(B) knowingly, after such service or em-
ployment terminates—
‘‘(i) represents, directly or indirectly,
a foreign national before any officer or em-
ployee of any department or agency of the
United States with the intent to influence
a decision of such officer or employee in