1.   Federal ethics laws prohibit former members from returning to lobby their colleagues for a year.

2.   Also, federal ethics rules barred the trust from soliciting funds.

3.   But federal ethics rules require presidential appointees to go even further than selling stock in their previous employers, as Card did.

4.   By contrast, the energetic McAuliffe has never held a full-time government post and is not subject to federal ethics laws.

5.   Federal ethics rules do not bar former commissioners or staff members from advising communities about their base-closing problems.

6.   Federal ethics rules would also prevent lawyers from forgiving the debt owed by the Clintons, because such a move would constitute an impermissible gift to a federal officeholder.

7.   Federal ethics laws bar former government officials from lobbying their former colleagues for a year after they leave the government.

8.   Federal ethics laws bar officials leaving the government from a variety of contacts with former colleagues.

9.   Federal ethics laws only require senators to disclose assets that produce income.

10.   Federal ethics rules barred the trust from soliciting funds.