Former members of Congress would also not be able to lobby their colleagues for two years, as opposed to the current one year.

There is nothing unusual about former government workers lobbying their old colleagues.

Proponents of the deal in Congress are lobbying their colleagues hard.

Both measures are aimed at those who leave the Government and then lobby their former colleagues, usually on issues with which they were involved.

The three are vigorously lobbying their colleagues for at most two openings.

Federal law bars former Government officials from lobbying former colleagues for one year after they leave office.

The laws bar former senior Government officials from lobbying their former colleagues for a year.

But he complained that moderate Republicans did not seem to be lobbying their colleagues aggressively.

The other proposal would have doubled, to two years, the current ban on former senators' lobbying their colleagues after leaving public office.

But they said he lobbied former colleagues on matters of little importance to the White House.