Conflict of Interest in Regulatory Agencies: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, House of Representatives, Ninety-fith Congress, First Session, May 23 and 24, and June 2, 1977U.S. Government Printing Office, 1977 - 205 pages |
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... illustrate general problems and issues , I will avoid using names of individual agency officials . 1 See Appendix , p . 177 , this hearing , for full text of staff study . The staff selected three agencies for review - the Federal 2.
... illustrate general problems and issues , I will avoid using names of individual agency officials . 1 See Appendix , p . 177 , this hearing , for full text of staff study . The staff selected three agencies for review - the Federal 2.
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... individuals with conflicts amounts to nothing more than a public relations exercise . No. 5 : The agencies have failed for the most part to give adequate advance guidance to employees concerning prohibited stocks . The result is that ...
... individuals with conflicts amounts to nothing more than a public relations exercise . No. 5 : The agencies have failed for the most part to give adequate advance guidance to employees concerning prohibited stocks . The result is that ...
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... individuals with conflicts at the time of appointment . In the period since January 1976 , FDA's Director of Policy Management has rejected only six applicants for appointment or reappointment based on financial interests . In the same ...
... individuals with conflicts at the time of appointment . In the period since January 1976 , FDA's Director of Policy Management has rejected only six applicants for appointment or reappointment based on financial interests . In the same ...
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... individual financial interest statements in three regulatory agencies and 53 Commissioners of seven independ- ent ... individuals known by the staff to have left EPA since filing their statements . More- over , a small number of the ...
... individual financial interest statements in three regulatory agencies and 53 Commissioners of seven independ- ent ... individuals known by the staff to have left EPA since filing their statements . More- over , a small number of the ...
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... individual basis . More- over , corporate changes occur with such frequency that any list quickly could be outdated . It seems preferable , therefore , to review any company on the list at the time an employee inquiry is received . It ...
... individual basis . More- over , corporate changes occur with such frequency that any list quickly could be outdated . It seems preferable , therefore , to review any company on the list at the time an employee inquiry is received . It ...
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Page 183 - ... particular matter in which, to his knowledge, he, his spouse, minor child, partner, organization in which he is serving as officer, director, trustee, partner or employee, or any person or organization with whom he is negotiating or has any arrangement concerning prospective employment, has a financial interest — "Shall be fined not more than $10,000, or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.
Page 12 - Commission or person in its employ shall be financially interested in the manufacture or sale of radio apparatus or of apparatus for wire or radio communication; in communication by wire or radio or in radio transmission of energy ; in any company furnishing services or such apparatus to any company engaged in communication by wire or radio or to any company manufacturing or selling apparatus used for communication by wire or radio; or in any company owning stocks, bonds, or other securities of any...
Page 185 - Government employees shall not use his position in any way to coerce, or give the appearance of coercing, another person to provide any financial benefit to him or persons with whom he has family, business, or financial ties.
Page 184 - Using public office for private gain; (2) Giving preferential treatment to any person; (3) Impeding Government efficiency or economy; (4) Losing complete Independence or impartiality; (5) Making a Government decision outside official channels; or (6) Affecting adversely the confidence of the public in the integrity of the Government.
Page 184 - ... which are the motivating factors; (2) Acceptance of food and refreshments of nominal value on infrequent occasions in the ordinary course of a luncheon or dinner meeting or other meeting or on an inspection tour where...
Page 183 - Acts affecting a personal financial interest (a) Except as permitted by subsection (b) hereof, whoever, being an officer or employee of the executive branch of the United States Government, of any independent agency of the United States, or of the District of Columbia, ineluding a special Government employee...
Page 183 - Shall be fined not more than $10,000, or imprisoned not more than two years, or both. (b) Subsection (a) hereof shall not apply (1) if the officer or employee first advises the Government official responsible for appointment to his position of the nature and circumstances of the judicial or other proceeding, application, request for a ruling or other determination, contract, claim, controversy, charge, accusation, arrest, or other particular matter and makes full disclosure of the financial interest...
Page 184 - SEC. 303. A consultant, adviser, or other special Government employee shall not use any inside information obtained as a result of his government service for private personal gain, either by direct action on his part or by counsel, recommendations or suggestions to others, including particularly those with whom he has family, business, or financial ties.
Page 185 - Service, setting forth the following information: (1) A list of the names of all corporations, companies, firms, or other business enterprises, partnerships, nonprofit organizations, and educational or other institutions with or in which he, his spouse, minor child or other member of his immediate household has — (1) Any connection as an employee, officer, owner, director, member, trustee...
Page 12 - No member of the Commission or person in its employ shall be financially interested in the manufacture or sale of radio apparatus or of apparatus for wire or radio communication; in communication by wire or radio or in radio transmission of energy; in any company furnishing services or such apparatus to any company engaged in communication by wire or radio or to any company manufacturing or selling apparatus used for communication by wire or radio; or in any company owning stocks, bonds, or other...