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The Director of OGE serves a five-year term, thereby overlapping presidential terms, and is subject to no term limit. The rest of the OGE employees are career civil servants. Created by the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 , OGE separated from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management in 1989 pursuant to reform legislation.
The Office of Government Ethics created by Title IV has been criticized on the grounds that its limited budget, leadership and prestige are inadequate for the Office to function effectively. [5]: 437 Other critics complain that public disclosure involves a violation of privacy which may deter good people from public service. [5]: 439
OGE Energy is also the former parent of Enogex Inc., a natural gas pipeline business which merged with CenterPoint Energy's midstream business to form Enable Midstream in 2013, [4] in 2021 OGE and CenterPoint sold their general partnership in Enable Midstream to Energy Transfer. [5] OGE Energy and its subsidiaries have about 3,100 employees.
The UNCAC states that the conflict of interest is a criterion which determines what information should be disclosed [citation needed].The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) defines conflict of interest as "a conflict between the public duty and private interests of a public official, in which the public official has private-capacity interests which could improperly ...
The Office of the Government Economist (OGE), formerly known as the Economic Analysis and Business Facilitation Unit, of the Hong Kong government was formed under the Financial Secretary's Office on 1 June 2004, when the HKSAR Government merged the Economic Analysis Division (under the Financial Services Branch of the Financial Services and the Treasury Bureau) and the Business Facilitation ...
H.R. 5060, an amendment to the Federal Financial Assistance Management Improvement Act of 1999, was passed by the House of Representatives on June 21, 2006, and sent to the Senate. H.R. 5060 can be considered a sister bill to S. 2590, but it is weaker than S. 2590 because it only considers federal grants. [21]
Full public disclosure of lobbying activity. Requires lobbyist disclosure filings to be filed twice as often, by decreasing the time between filing from semi-annual to quarterly. Requires lobbyist disclosures in both the Senate and House to be filed electronically and requires creation of a public searchable Internet database of such information.
The Ethics in Government Act was signed into law by U.S. President Carter, requiring mandatory disclosure of the financial records of all public officials and their immediate families, restricting outside employment for officials making more than a certain amount of money, and prohibiting lobbying work for one year after leaving public office.