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“Federal agencies should send yearly foreign gift lists to ethics officials and the State Department, and should tell employees how to handle and report foreign gifts.”
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“Officials, employees, candidates, and covered relatives should not be allowed to accept gifts from countries the State Department designates as countries of concern.”
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“Foreign gift limits should count gifts to a broader group of an official's, employee's, or candidate's relatives, not only relatives who are dependents.”
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“Foreign gift rules should treat people who are not U.S. citizens or green-card holders, and organizations legally formed outside the United States, as foreign sources.”
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“The Office of Government Ethics should tell agencies how to build the databases within 1 year, agencies should gather electronic records within 270 days after that guidance and launch databases within 3 years, update them at least every 3 months, report known gaps, and face yearly congressional oversight reports until all agencies comply.”
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“Agency ethics databases should include public financial disclosure reports, ethics waivers and approvals, recusals, ethics agreements, training and certification records, blind trust and asset-sale records, income updates, and certain future-job ethics records.”
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“Once a covered ethics record about a political appointee or other noncareer executive branch official is posted, it should stay publicly available online for six years.”
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“Federal employees should owe a $200 fee when a required foreign gift report is at least 30 days late, but agencies should be able to cancel the fee for a good reason.”
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“Agencies should publish covered ethics records while leaving out or blacking out specific sensitive information, such as national defense information, confidential investigations, confidential financial disclosures, some one-on-one ethics advice, trade secrets, home addresses, children's names, account numbers, and some pending job details.”
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“People should be able to search and view agency ethics records for free without registering, use a central Office of Government Ethics page to find agency databases, download records in bulk or through an API, and use websites that work for people with disabilities.”
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“Federal executive agencies, including covered parts of the President's office, should have to create and maintain public online databases for certain executive branch ethics records.”
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“Foreign gift records should show more about each gift, including who gave it, what it was worth, where it went, when public lists are published, and when information was hidden.”
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“The Office of Government Ethics should publish yearly public reports on the pledge system, and signed pledges and waiver certifications should stay permanently in each covered appointee's official personnel record.”
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“Covered ethics records posted in the public database should stay publicly available online for at least 10 years, even if another recordkeeping rule would normally allow earlier destruction.”
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“People with foreign gift reports due within 30 days after the new reporting system starts should have to use the new reporting details and procedures.”
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