Report to Congress Evaluating the Financial Disclosure Process for Employees of the Executive Branch, and Recommending Improvements to it

摘要

The Ethics in Government Act (EIGA), Pub L. 95-521, was enacted in 1978 as part of a comprehensive legislative initiative to improve public confidence in the integrity of Government operations. The EIGA, as amended by the Ethics Reform Act of 1989, Pub. L. 101-194, requires senior officials in all three branches of Government to file public financial disclosure reports. In general, filers must provide information about: their assets and the income derived from them; the income that they earned for performing services; the purchase, sale and exchange of certain assets; gifts of food, lodging, transportation, or entertainment, and reimbursements that they received; certain of their liabilities; their agreements for future employment, as well as their continuing agreements and arrangements, such as continued participation in the employee benefit plans of former employers; the positions that they hold, or recently have held, outside the Government; and the identities of those who recently paid compensation over $5000 for their personal services.