COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS TED STEVENS, Alaska WILLIAM V. ROTH, JR., Delaware, Chairman CHARLES MCC. MATHIAS, JR., Maryland THOMAS F. EAGLETON, Missouri JOHN GLENN, Ohio CARL LEVIN, Michigan ALBERT GORE, JR., Tennessee JOHN M. DUNCAN, Staff Director CONTENTS Page 1 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 1985 David H. Martin, Director, Office of Government Ethics Bernhardt K. Wruble, First Director, Office of Government Ethics (1979). Ann McBride, senior vice president, Common Cause... Rosslyn S. Kleeman, Associate Director, General Government Division, Gen- eral Accounting Office, accompanied by L. Nye Stevens, Group Director, General Government Division; and Alvin Tucker, Deputy Assistant Inspec- tor General for Auditing, Department of Defense, accompanied by David O. Cooke, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Administration Letter from William J. Anderson, Director, General Accounting Office, to Hon. Donald Joseph Albosta, chairman, Subcommittee on Human Re- sources, House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, August 30, 43 Letter from Senator William S. Cohen to David R. Scott, Esq., former Acting Director of the Office of Government Ethics, March 14, 1985 Letter from David R. Scott, Esq., former Acting Director of the Office of Government Ethics, to Senator William S. Cohen, March 28, 1985.. Letter from David H. Martin, Esq., Director, Office of Government Ethics, to Senator Strom Thurmond, chairman, Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Page Excerpt from testimony of David H. Martin, Esq., Director, Office of Govern- 149 150 Advisory Opinion letter from David H. Martin, Esq., Director, Office of Government Ethics, to Agency Counsel, December 30, 1983. Advisory Opinion letter from David H. Martin, Esq., Director, Office of Gov- Moffer v. Department of the Interior, 8 MSPB 134 (1981) "The Appearance of Impropriety as a Standard For Disciplining_Federal 152 154 155 156 160 164 Letter from Senator Carl Levin to David H. Martin, Esq., Director, Office of 179 Letter from David H. Martin, Esq., Director, Office of Government Ethics, to 182 Letter from Senator Carl Levin to David H. Martin, Esq., Director, Office of 185 189 Letter from David H. Martin, Esq., Director, Office of Government Ethics, to Letter from Senators William S. Cohen and Carl Levin to David H. Martin, Letter from Gary Davis, Esq., staff attorney, Office of Government Ethics, to Letter from John M. Harmon, Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal 192 194 195 209 210 217 Letter from Theodore B. Olson, Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal 227 Letter from Senator William S. Cohen to Attorney General Edwin Meese III, 238 Letter from Phillip D. Brady, Acting Assistant Attorney General, U.S. De- 240 243 Letter from David H. Martin, Esq., Director, Office of Government Ethics, to 245 "Bureaucratic Orphans, the Administration of Government Ethics Programs as Viewed by Agency Ethics Officials," Common Cause, November 1984... Memorandum on Employee Standards of Conduct from Dwight Ink, Acting Administrator, General Services Administration, to Heads of Services, Staff Offices and all Regional Administrators, April 8, 1985. Audit Report, "Procedures and Controls for Filing Financial Disclosure Statements Within the Department of Defense," Office of the Inspector General, Department of Defense, December 24, 1984... 246 308 309 Letter from Joseph H. Sherick, Inspector General, Department of Defense, to 329 Letter from June Legates, Legislative Research and Information Assistant, 335 |