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:
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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 7. Engage
in no business with the Government, either directly or indirectly, which
is inconsistent with the conscientious performance of his governmental duties.
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| 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.
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(Passed July 11, 1958)