How about, “you can lobby and advise and petition, but not for any form of compensation, monetary or in-kind”? Freedom of association and the right to petition don’t guarantee the right to get paid to do so. Yes, corrupt scumbags will try to get around these limitations as corrupt scumbags will and the law will need to be enforced, and yes there will probably be an attempt to foist some Citizens United style suit to overturn it, but it’ll probably shunt most former Congresspeople to other post-service careers.
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