Does the lobbying ban extend beyond the agency where the former appointee served?
Yes. Paragraph 5, unlike paragraph 4 or 18 U.S.C. 207(c), restricts a former appointee from lobbying certain officials throughout the entire Executive Branch, not just officials of the agency where the former appointee actually served. (What it means to “lobby,” including the concepts of “lobbying contact” and “acting as a registered lobbyist,” is discussed in questions 6 through 10 below.) Example: A former appointee at the Department of Transportation may not, as a registered lobbyist, make a lobbying contact with the Secretary of Health and Human Services. This would be prohibited even though she never served at HHS in any capacity and the subject matter of the lobbying is unrelated to her former Government position.
