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Tamara Keith ?@tamarakeithNPR Jan 7Here is the full @OfficeGovEthics letter to senators. The ending is ominous: "For as long as I remain director...
elehhhhna
(32,076 posts)Didn't know appointees were traditionally cleared before they were announced.
This is unprecedented on many levels.
bigtree
(85,996 posts)Call & write senators now! Tell them no confirmation hearings unless all required disclosures are made. https://t.co/hjtLiZ3Apm
saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)I will call tomorrow.
Generator
(7,770 posts)Didn't know that either. Warren is all over it!
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,719 posts)wordpix
(18,652 posts)but The People interfered. Even Don the Con asked why this was the CONgress' highest priority.
milestogo
(16,829 posts)"I have the best ethics".
colorado_ufo
(5,734 posts)Crunchy Frog
(26,587 posts)I wouldn't bet on it.
lastlib
(23,239 posts)this is an executive-branch office if I understand correctly. Oversees ethics for presidential employees.
('Course, ah could be wrowng.......)
Raine1967
(11,589 posts)because there was a dire need for an ethical office after Nixon.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,719 posts)This is a different agency - the Office of Government Ethics, whose job is to prevent conflicts of interest in the executive branch. https://www.oge.gov/
uponit7771
(90,346 posts)N_E_1 for Tennis
(9,728 posts)If the nominees have to be vetted and I can understand that.
Why the mother fucking place in the dredges of hell are the candidates for the
Most powerful post in the world NOT vetted?
It would have made all this crap we are going though extinct.
This country needs a big, big, wake up call. Trump is not it but may be the beginning.
We need to revolt. Somehow, someway!
Ford_Prefect
(7,901 posts)Title I requires men and women in the public service sector to fill out financial disclosure forms which include the sources and amounts of income, gifts, reimbursements, the identity and approximate value of property held and liabilities owed, transactions in property, commodities, and securities, and certain financial interests of a spouse or dependent.
The report must then be filed to the appropriate state officer of his or her state, and the committee charged with issues of ethics in his or her respective house of Congress. The President, Vice President, counsel appointed to the United States Department of Justice, and nominees to positions that require United States Senate confirmation must file with the Director of the Office of Government Ethics.
People that must file reports include, but are not limited to: the President, Vice President, employees and officers of the Executive Branch, Postmaster General, the Deputy Postmaster General, each Governor of the Board of Governors of the U.S. Postal Service and each officer or employee of the United States Postal Service or Postal Regulatory Commission.
Disclosure must also be made available to the public shortly after they are submitted.
The Attorney General of the United States can bring charges against anyone who falsifies information in the reports.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,719 posts)These assholes will ignore the laws and get away with it. Trump's attorney general won't bring charges against anybody who falsifies information in the reports. And this corrupt GOP congress wouldn't be above repealing the statutes altogether. I just hope that public pressure is enough to make them back off on some of their worst behavior (and they did back off, at least temporarily, when it was discovered that the House was about to gut its own ethics rules).