“Pledged to work to impose a lifetime lobbyist ban on former members of Congress.”
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Sheehy pledged on 2023-12-05 as a Senate candidate to work to impose a lifetime lobbyist ban on former members of Congress, and took office in January 2025. As of July 2026 there is no documented evidence he advanced it. His official Senate legislation page shows no sponsored or cosponsored bill addressing lobbying or a lobbyist ban. The flagship vehicle for exactly this policy — the BLAST Act, imposing a permanent lifetime lobbying ban on former members of Congress — was introduced May 14, 2026 by fellow Republican Sen. Rick Scott with Sen. Elizabeth Warren, and both the Warren and Scott press releases (verified verbatim) list only those two senators; Sheehy is absent as a sponsor or cosponsor, confirmed independently via web search. His only documented post-election ethics activity was a blind-trust pledge for his Bridger Aerospace holdings, which the NBC Montana piece covers and which is unrelated to a lobbyist ban. He therefore had a concrete, low-effort opportunity (cosponsoring the BLAST Act) and took no action on this promise, supporting IGNORED. IGNORED claims no leadership and does not overstate the record. Confidence is moderate because the rating rests partly on absence of action and his term runs to 2031, leaving future action possible.
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