Code of Ethics for Government Service: Hearing Before the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, House of Representatives, Eighty-fourth Congress, Second Session on H. Con. Res. 2 and H. Con. Res. 17, Resolutions Establishing a Code of Ethics for Government Service, March 26, 1956

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Страница 2 - Make no private promises of any kind binding upon the duties of office, since a Government employee has no private word which can be binding on public duty.
Страница 2 - Never discriminate unfairly by the dispensing of special favors: or privileges to anyone, whether for remuneration or not; and never accept, for himself or his family, favors or benefits under circumstances which might be construed by reasonable persons as influencing the performance of his governmental duties.
Страница 1 - ETHICS FOR GOVERNMENT SERVICE Any person in Government service should : 1. Put loyalty to the highest moral principles and to country above loyalty to persons, party or Government department. 2. Uphold the Constitution, laws, and legal regulations of the United States and of all governments therein...
Страница 2 - Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring) , That it is the sense of the Congress that the following Code of Ethics should be adhered to by all Government employees, including officeholders: CODE OF ETHICS FOR GOVERNMENT SERVICE Any person in Government service should : 1.
Страница 2 - Indirectly, which is inconsistent with the conscientious performance of his governmental duties. 8. Never use any information coming to him confidentially in the performance of governmental duties as a means for making private profit. 9. Expose corruption wherever discovered. 10. Uphold these principles, ever conscious that public office is a public trust.
Страница 2 - Any person in Government service should: 1. Put loyalty to the highest moral principles and to country above loyalty to persons, party, or Government department. 2. Uphold the Constitution, laws, and legal regulations of the United States and of all governments therein and never be a party to their evasion. 3. Give a full day's labor for a full day's pay; giving to the performance of his duties his earnest effort and best thought. 4. Seek to find and employ more efficient and economical ways of getting...
Страница 22 - AFL-CIO desires to express our thanks to you, Mr. Chairman, and to the members of your subcommittee...
Страница 10 - WE, as members of the civil service, accept our obligation and our opportunity to serve the American people well and in full measure, doing our best to further the free and democratic institutions of our country. We believe it is our duty to— Carry out loyally the will of the people as expressed in our laws; serve the public with fairness, courtesy, integrity, and understanding; help improve the efficiency, economy, and effectiveness of our work, and thus do our part in performing the great services...
Страница 8 - Establishment consulted with the National Association of Real Estate Boards and the National Association of Home Builders, who recommended amendment to the National Housing Act to provide for title VIII, military housing insurance granting 100-percent guaranty.
Страница 18 - Who would question the declaration that all should "give a full day's labor for a full day's pay" ; or object to the admonition against "dispensing of special favors or privileges to anyone" ? Considerable attention has been focused in the past few years on the question of the Congress establishing definite guidelines in the form of a Government code of ethics. Such code was among the numerous suggestions made to Senator Douglas...

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