Bipartisan bill seeks to put arms sales lobbyists on ice for 3-years

Bipartisan bill seeks to put arms sales lobbyists on ice for 3-years

President Donald Trump announced some $200 billion in potential arms sales to Saudi Arabia and Qatar a week ago — this is huge potential business for major U.S. defense contractors like RTX, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and General Atomics, all of which deploy armies of lobbyists in Washington each year to influence such contracts. A new bipartisan bill dropping this week will impose some of the strictest bans to date to make sure former go…