Office of Government Ethics
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OGE has a longstanding policy about the "gift" of free attendance, which often comes with a nice breakfast or lunch and tchotchkes off vendor tables.
April 20, 2017 -
Federal Freedom of Information Act offices saw a record number of information requests in fiscal 2016, an accomplishment that highlights the need to be able to efficiently and effectively serve stakeholder and citizens.
March 13, 2017 -
The Office of Government Ethics is calling on the White House to investigate comments made by presidential counselor Kellyanne Conway, and whether she broke an ethics law. OGE is also reviewing Conway's comments, per the request of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
February 14, 2017 -
Leaders of the bipartisan transparency caucus pledged to work together to restore public trust in open government, and to apply transparency standards evenly across the three branches of government.
February 02, 2017 -
House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Jason Chaffetz and Office of Government Ethics Director Walter Shaub are meeting on Monday to talk about recent comments about President-elect Trump and conflicts of interest.
January 19, 2017 -
Walter Shaub, the director of the Office of Government Ethics, wrote to Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, calling for transparency and public education to the ensure citizens know how his agency oversees and guards against executive branch ethics issues.
January 18, 2017 -
The chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has called for more scrutiny of the Office of Government Ethics for its critical stance on President-elect Donald Trump's potential conflicts of interest prior to taking office.
January 13, 2017 -
Both members of Congress and the Office of Government Ethics are attempting to get their hands around what was once an arcane federal ethics issue: discretionary trusts, and whether an executive branch employee's interests in one violates the criminal conflict of interest statute.
January 09, 2017 -
President-elect Donald Trump will violate the terms of a contract with the federal government on Inauguration Day if he doesn't give up his ownership stake of the Washington, D.C. luxury hotel that bears his name, a General Services Administration official has determined.
December 14, 2016 -
The Office of Government Ethics revised its guidance for accepting gifts for the first time in nearly 25 years. Federal employees may continue to accept gifts worth $20 or less from an outside source, but OGE suggests they consider whether accepting the gift would bring up questions of integrity of impartiality.
November 18, 2016 -
The Office of Government Ethics finalized a series of sweeping changes to its executive branch ethics program days ahead of the upcoming presidential transition. OGE used nearly 40 years of feedback to write the new program, which strengthens ethics training for designated agency ethics officials and requires new political appointees to receive ethics training within the first 15 days of appointment.
November 03, 2016 -
The Office of Government Ethics has a new proposed rule that would exclude some federal employees at General Schedule 13 positions or below from having to automatically submit financial disclosures.
October 07, 2016 -
The upcoming presidential transition will bring thousands of new faces to top leadership positions, but they might find federal ethics rules to be more stringent than what they've seen in the private sector.
September 13, 2016 -
The Office of Government Ethics tweaked standards of ethical conduct for federal employees who seek new jobs outside the government. Federal employees must recuse themselves from agency matters if affect the financial interests of a prospective employer, the final rule said.
July 27, 2016 -
The Office of Government Ethics is proposing an update to its executive branch ethics program that would reflect more than three decades of development.
July 01, 2016