WASHINGTON—California Rep. Nancy Pelosi is expected to be elected as speaker of the House on Thursday with two, immediate legislative priorities: ending a partial government shutdown and passing a government-overhaul package changing campaign-finance rules and government-ethics law while expanding voting rights. On ethics, the package would prohibit senior government officials from lobbying their former executive-branch peers for two years after they have left government. It also calls for establishing a nationwide automatic...

Source: Wall Street Journal January 03, 2019 10:30 UTC