Obama transition, called the restraints “the strictest, the most far-reaching ethics rules of any transition team in history.”

from today's NYT

Obama’s Transition Team Restricts Lobbyists’ Role

By HELENE COOPER and JEFF ZELENY

WASHINGTON — Turning to campaign promises in which he pledged sweeping ethics restrictions, President-elect Barack Obama will bar lobbyists from helping to pay the costs of his transition to power or working for it in any area in which they have represented clients in the last year, his transition team said Tuesday.

Mr. Obama’s aides indicated that they expected the rules to apply to his inauguration as well as the transition, but said they had yet to make a final decision on how the inauguration would be paid for. Continues