Report of the special outside counsel in the matter of Speaker James C. Wright, Jr |
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Page 26 - Never discriminate unfairly by the dispensing of special favors or privileges to anyone, whether for remuneration or not; and never accept, for himself or his family, favors or benefits under circumstances which might be construed by reasonable persons as influencing the performance of his governmental duties.
Page 254 - ... (a) Using public office for private gain; (b) Giving preferential treatment to any person ; (c) Impeding Government efficiency or economy ; (d) Losing complete independence or impartiality; (e) Making a Government decision outside official channels; or (f ) Affecting adversely the confidence of the public in the integrity of the Government.
Page 55 - Congress. 4. A Member, officer, or employee of the House of Representatives shall not accept gifts (other than personal hospitality of an individual or with a fair market value of...
Page 254 - An employee shall avoid any action, whether or not specifically prohibited by this Part which might result in, or create the appearance of: (a) Using public office for private gain...
Page 54 - Schedule, may not in any calendar year have outside earned income attributable to such calendar year which exceeds 15 percent of the annual rate of basic pay for level II of the Executive Schedule under section 5313 of title 5, United States Code, as of January 1 of such calendar year. (2) In the case of any individual who...
Page 196 - A second moral obligation is to make sure that the methods of intervening in administrative matters are not themselves so inherently damaging to the administrative process or to legislative-administrative relations that they offset any public benefit that might be gained from any such legislative pressure. It may be noted that "reference" is not exclusively a legislative function.
Page 114 - (a) the term 'gift' means a payment, subscription, advance, forbearance, rendering, or deposit of money, services, or anything of value, including food, lodging, transportation, or entertainment, and reimbursement for other than necessary expenses, unless consideration of equal or greater value is received, but does not include (1) a political contribution otherwise reported as required by law, (2) a loan made in a commercially reasonable manner (including requirements that the loan be repaid and...
Page 116 - Make no private promises of any kind binding upon the duties of office, since a Government employee has no private word which can be binding on public duty.
Page 26 - A Member, officer, or employee of the House of Representatives shall conduct himself at all times in a manner which shall reflect creditably on the House of Representatives.
Page 54 - He shall expend no funds from his campaign account not attributable to bona fide campaign purposes. (7) A Member of the House of Representatives shall treat as campaign contributions all proceeds from testimonial dinners or other fund raising events...