Norman Eisen was President Barack Obama’s “ethics czar” from 2009 to 2011 and his ambassador to the Czech Republic from 2011-14. He is a senior fellow in Governance Studies atI had the privilege of implementing President Barack Obama’s demanding ethics vision for his administration, including its centerpiece, his “Day One” executive order setting tough new rules on conflicts of interest.
Let’s start with what an ethics plan is. Federal law establishes the basic rules for government officials to avoid conflicts of interest and other behavior that is corrupt or appears corrupt by benefiting themselves, their families or associates. Obama went further, ordering each of his appointees to sign a pledge committing to additional safeguards on their behavior. Trump greatly watered down the standards with scandalous results.
The new plan also builds on Obama's in closing the revolving door on the other side of government employment: when employees leave. Federal law imposes a one-year limit on a departing senior official communicating on behalf of clients with the agency where the official worked. In the Obama administration, we extended that to two years, on the theory that an employer might pay an ex-official to do nothing for 12 months, but 24 months is a long time for cold storage.
A number of other post-employment restrictions are added as well, including materially assisting others in making communications or appearances that ex-officials are prohibited from undertaking themselves under the pledge. Here the Biden plan again improves on the Obama ethics rules by closing a loophole for “shadow lobbying”— when former officials who might not themselves be able to meet with an agency prepare and strategize with their colleagues to do so instead.
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Lmfao HOW CAN ANYONE WHO WROTE OBAMAS ETHICS BE COMPARATIVE THE FUCKING NERVE
Draining his own swamp you mean.
'if implemented rigorously' Wake me up when that happens, then I may get excited.
'but Obama had arguably the most scandal-free presidency in memory' within the first paragraph lost all credibility for the rest of the article.
If Joe Biden drains the swamp he should start by admitting what he did to his son that he says he is still so proud of after his passing. He should be tried for sexual assault as well. If he is acquitted then ill back off. God, country, family, law.
JonathanEilbeck Trump didn't 'drain the swamp.' He just replaced the frogs with toads and lined the pockets of his Russian loan-sharks.
I think he should undo the revoking of the executive order banning administration folk from lobbying for 5 years after leaving office! Especially if it blocks trump from lobbying for a party nomination. 😉 Let his 3rd party split the republican vote and keep Democrats in power!
That's funny - comming from a man who is the swamp
MadMaxLives The day has finally arrived when decency, honesty and integrity returns to the White House.
We have some major work to do, that’s for sure.
Just do what you said that you going to do in writing.
He's an idiot. Drain the Swamp refer's to him and his kind.
Confused as to why there are Nazis in America in the 21st century. Read my updates.
Trump made clear what truly needs to be drained, in order to drain the swamp, by doing all the swampy things he did.
Hope he can do what DRAINTHESWAMPTRUMP could not do!
Crystal85087337 If anyone would go further with ethics it will be Joe Biden. I studied his tax returns. He is the real deal & one of the most ethical people in politics. That's a fact.
SethAbramson Oh come on, swamps are vital ecosystems!! Let's call it what it really is: 'taking out the trash.' ☮️💛🇺🇲
SethAbramson EO needs to be followed by bill making it the law of the land, with enforceable penalties. RepAdamSchiff SenSchumer SenFeinstein NormaJTorres SpeakerPelosi sfpelosi SenWhitehouse SenJeffMerkley JoeBiden KamalaHarris
Sure! Sounds more like blood letting than Draining the Swamp. What is he going to do get all the Democrats to retire.
Ethics?!? Yes. Drone bomb poor Muslims at weddings and funerals. Great ethics. Oh, ans the media including politico won’t even ask you about it. Great ethics. Love it.
SethAbramson I ❤️ Norm 🥰
Impeach him. We didn't vote for him.
SethAbramson DO IT!!
50linesonly Norm failed.
RonaldKlain Well. That should scare hell out of a lot of the DC lampreys.
RonaldKlain Haha ethics, forgot what they were given the last 4 years.
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