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United States Office Of Government Ethics
The United States Office of Government Ethics (OGE) is an independent agency within the Executive branch of the United States government, executive branch of the U.S. Federal Government which is responsible for directing executive branch policies relating to the prevention of conflicts of interest on the part of Federal executive branch officers and employees. Under the Ethics in Government Act, this agency was originally part of the Office of Personnel Management from 1978 until it separated in 1989. Primary duties The main duties of OGE include the following: *Establishing the standards of conduct for the executive branch; *Issuing rules and regulations interpreting the criminal conflict of interest restrictions; *Establishing the framework for the public and confidential financial disclosure systems for executive branch employees; *Developing training and education programs for use by executive branch ethics officials and employees; *Ensuring that individual agency ethics p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of the longest-running newspapers in the United States, the ''Times'' serves as one of the country's Newspaper of record, newspapers of record. , ''The New York Times'' had 9.13 million total and 8.83 million online subscribers, both by significant margins the List of newspapers in the United States, highest numbers for any newspaper in the United States; the total also included 296,330 print subscribers, making the ''Times'' the second-largest newspaper by print circulation in the United States, following ''The Wall Street Journal'', also based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' is published by the New York Times Company; since 1896, the company has been chaired by the Ochs-Sulzberger family, whose current chairman and the paper's publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Ethics Organizations
Ethics is the philosophical study of moral phenomena. Also called moral philosophy, it investigates normative questions about what people ought to do or which behavior is morally right. Its main branches include normative ethics, applied ethics, and metaethics. Normative ethics aims to find general principles that govern how people should act. Applied ethics examines concrete ethical problems in real-life situations, such as abortion, treatment of animals, and business practices. Metaethics explores the underlying assumptions and concepts of ethics. It asks whether there are objective moral facts, how moral knowledge is possible, and how moral judgments motivate people. Influential normative theories are consequentialism, deontology, and virtue ethics. According to consequentialists, an act is right if it leads to the best consequences. Deontologists focus on acts themselves, saying that they must adhere to duties, like telling the truth and keeping promises. Virtue ethics se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Florida Commission On Ethics
The Florida Commission on Ethics, created in 1974 by the Florida Legislature, is tasked with investigating complaints alleging breaches of public trust by public officers and employees in Florida, other than judges. It is headquartered in Tallahassee, Florida. History and role 1974-99 In 1974 the Florida Legislature created the Florida Commission on Ethics "to serve as guardian of the standards of conduct" for state and local public officials. The commission is tasked with investigating complaints alleging breaches of public trust by public officers and employees in Florida, other than judges. It is part of the legislative branch of Florida government. Professor R.L. Williams studied the effectiveness of the commission in the early 1990s, culminating in a report in 1996, and concluded that at the time it apparently served "more effectively as a punitive agent than as an agent of constructive change."Donald C. Menzel (2012)''Ethics Management for Public Administrators; Leading an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Title 5 Of The Code Of Federal Regulations
CFR Title 5 – Administrative Personnel is one of fifty titles comprising the United States Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), containing the principal set of rules and regulations issued by federal agencies regarding administrative personnel. It is available in digital and printed form, and can be referenced online using thElectronic Code of Federal Regulations(e-CFR). Structure The table of contents, as reflected in the e-CFR updated March 5, 2014, is as follows: History The CFR was authorized by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on October 11, 1938, as a means to organize and maintain the growing material published by federal agencies in the newly mandated Federal Register. The first volume of the CFR was published in 1939 with general applicability and legal effect in force June 1, 1938. The Office of the Federal Register The Office of the Federal Register is an office of the United States government within the National Archives and Records Administration. The Office pu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Doug Collins (politician)
Douglas Allen Collins (born August 16, 1966) is an American lawyer, politician, and military officer serving as the 12th United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs, United States secretary of veterans affairs since 2025. A member of the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party, he previously served as the United States House of Representatives, U.S. representative for Georgia's 9th congressional district from 2013 to 2021 and in the Georgia House of Representatives from 2007 to 2013, representing the 27th district, which includes portions of Hall County, Georgia, Hall County, Lumpkin County, Georgia, Lumpkin County, and White County, Georgia, White County. Collins has served as a Military chaplain, chaplain in the U.S. Air Force Reserve since 2002, and was promoted to Colonel (United States), colonel in 2023. On January 29, 2020, Collins announced he would run in the 2020–21 United States Senate special election in Georgia, November 2020 special election for Georgia's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Shelley Finlayson
Shelley most often refers to: * Mary Shelley (1797–1851), the author of ''Frankenstein'' and the wife of Percy Shelley * Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822), a major English Romantic poet and husband of Mary Shelley * Shelley (name), a given name and a surname Shelley may also refer to: Film and television * ''Shelley'' (film), a 2016 Danish film * ''Shelley'' (TV series), a British sitcom that first aired in 1979 * Shelley (''American Horror Story''), a character on ''American Horror Story'' Music * Shelley (musician) (Shelley Marshaun Massenburg-Smith, born 1988), a German-born American musician * Shelley (band) or Orlando, a British 1990s band * "Shelley" is the name of a Dance Hall Crashers song from their 1995 studio album ''Lockjaw''. Places * Shelley, Victoria, a former town in the Shire of Towong, Australia ** Shelley railway station, Victoria, a closed station * Shelley, Western Australia, a suburb of Perth * Shelley, British Columbia, Canada * Shel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Emory Rounds
Emory Arthur Rounds III is an American attorney and government ethics official who is a former director of the United States Office of Government Ethics. He was nominated by President Donald Trump to serve a five-year term. Career Rounds served as an ethics attorney at the United States Department of Commerce and in the Judge Advocate General's Office in the U.S. Navy, where he attained the rank of Commander. Rounds served as an ethics counsel for six years in the White House Counsel's Office during the administration of George W. Bush, and subsequently served as an associate counsel at the U.S. Office of Government Ethics. On February 8, 2018, President Donald Trump announced his intent to nominate Rounds to the office of Director of the Office of Government Ethics for a term of five years. Personal life Rounds is a graduate of King Philip Regional High School, in Wrentham, Massachusetts. He earned his BA in English from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and his Ju ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
David J
David John Haskins (born 24 April 1957, Northampton, Northamptonshire, England), better known as David J, is a British alternative rock musician, producer, and writer. He is the bassist for the gothic rock band Bauhaus (band), Bauhaus and for Love and Rockets (band), Love and Rockets. He has composed the scores for a number of plays and films, and also wrote and directed his own plays, ''Silver for Gold (The Odyssey of Edie Sedgwick)'', in 2008, which was restaged at REDCAT in Los Angeles in 2011, and ''The Chanteuse and The Devil's Muse'' in 2011. His artwork has been shown in galleries internationally, and he has been a resident DJ at venues such as the Knitting Factory. David J has released a number of singles and solo albums, and in 1990 he released one of the first No. 1 hits on the then nascent Modern Rock Tracks charts, with "I'll Be Your Chauffeur". His most recent single, "The Day That David Bowie Died" entered the UK vinyl singles chart at number 4 in 2016. The trac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Frank Q
Frank, FRANK, or Franks may refer to: People * Frank (given name) * Frank (surname) * Franks (surname) * Franks, a Germanic people in late Roman times * Franks, a term in the Muslim world for all western Europeans, particularly during the Crusades Currency * Liechtenstein franc or frank, the currency of Liechtenstein since 1920 * Swiss franc or frank, the currency of Switzerland since 1850 * Westphalian frank, currency of the Kingdom of Westphalia between 1808 and 1813 * The currencies of the German-speaking cantons of Switzerland (1803–1814): ** Appenzell frank ** Aargau frank ** Basel frank ** Berne frank ** Fribourg frank ** Glarus frank ** Graubünden frank ** Luzern frank ** Schaffhausen frank ** Schwyz frank ** Solothurn frank ** St. Gallen frank ** Thurgau frank ** Unterwalden frank ** Uri frank ** Zürich frank Places * Frank, Alberta, Canada, an urban community, formerly a village * Franks, Illinois, United States, an unincorporated community * Franks ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
First Presidency Of Donald Trump
Donald Trump's first tenure as the president of the United States began on January 20, 2017, when Trump First inauguration of Donald Trump, was inaugurated as the List of presidents of the United States, 45th president, and ended on January20, 2021. Trump, a Republican Party (United States), Republican from New York (state), New York, took office following his United States Electoral College, electoral college victory over Democratic Party (United States), Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in the 2016 United States presidential election, 2016 presidential election. Upon his inauguration, he became the first president in American history List of presidents of the United States by previous experience, without prior public office or military background. Trump made an unprecedented number of False or misleading statements by Donald Trump, false or misleading statements during his Donald Trump 2016 presidential campaign, 2016 campaign and first presidency. Alongside Trump's pres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Politico
''Politico'' (stylized in all caps), known originally as ''The Politico'', is an American political digital newspaper company founded by American banker and media executive Robert Allbritton in 2007. It covers politics and policy in the United States and internationally, with publications dedicated to politics in the U.S., European Union, United Kingdom, and Canada, among others. Primarily providing distributed news, analysis and opinion online, it also produces printed newspapers, radio, and podcasts. Its coverage focuses on topics such as the federal government, lobbying and the media. Ideologically, ''Politicos coverage has been described as centrist on American politics and Atlanticist on international politics. In 2021, ''Politico'' was acquired for reportedly over US$1 billion by Axel Springer SE, a German news publisher and media company. Axel Springer is Europe's largest newspaper publisher and had previously acquired '' Business Insider''. Unlike employees of its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
