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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

Any person in Government service should:

  1. Put loyalty to the highest moral principles and to country above loyalty to Government persons, party, or department.
     

  2. Uphold the Constitution, laws, and legal regulations of the United States and 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 tasks accomplished.
     

  5. Never discriminate unfairly by the dispensing of special favors or privileges by 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.
     

  6. 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.
     

  7. Engage in no business with the Government, either directly or indirectly, which is inconsistent with the conscientious performance of his governmental duties.
     

  8. Never use any information coming to him in confidentiality in the performance of governmental duties as a means of making private profit.
     

  9. Expose corruption whenever discovered.
     

  10. Uphold these principles, ever conscious that public office is a public trust. 

(Passed July 11, 1958)

 
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