As of this writing, the White House’s “ethics” page lists one Executive Order dating to January 21, 2009. A careful student of executive branch ethics would have to visit about ten websites, at least, across a few government agencies, for all of the relevant pronouncements on the topic.
Month: April 2009
Office of Congressional Ethics Profile
CQ Politics Online profiles the Office of Congressional Ethics in this article. The House established the office in part to bring more transparency and independence to the ethics process, which had been the sole domain of the House Committee of Standards of Official Conduct, the formal name of the ethics committee.
Jesse Jackson Jr., Rod Blagojevich, and Barack Obama’s Senate Seat
The Times looks into Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.’s activities relative to Barack Obama’s vacated seat in the Senate. Mr. Jackson asserts he has done nothing wrong and had not known about the fund-raiser’s activities. But with new indications that federal prosecutors and Congressional ethics investigators are stepping up their interest in Mr. Jackson, a nagging […]