Enforcing Ethics within the Federal Government
 ·Requires the development of a code of ethics for Supreme Court justices.
 ·Increases resources for Foreign Agents Registration Act office, creates FARA investigation and enforcement unit in Department of Justice and provides authority to impose civil penalties, and requires Foreign Agents to disclose transactions involving things of financial value conferred on officeholders.
 ·Clarifies that counseling in support of lobbying contacts is considered lobbying under the Lobbying Disclosure Act and therefore triggers registration.
 ·Requires all Presidential appointees to recuse themselves from any matter in which a party is the President, the President's spouse, or an entity in which the President or President's spouse has a substantial interest.
Given the new House, and the fact that it just had a hearing, the bill could pass the House with popular support. It could then become a campaign issue to get through a future Senate and White House, and elections are not that far off. Supporting the changes could make them happen in the not distant future.
Robert Weiner was a spokesman for the Clinton and Bush White Houses as well as the House Government Operations Committee, senior aide to Congressmen Charles Rangel, Claude Pepper, Ed Koch, John Conyers, and Sen. Ted Kennedy. Ben Lasky is senior policy coordinator at Robert Weiner Associates and Solutions for Change.
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