    [Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and the Rules of the House of Representatives, 105th Congress]
    [105th Congress]
    [House Document 104-272]
    [Rules of the House of Representatives]
    [Page 803]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                    Rule XLI.

                    qualifications of officers and employees.

    Sec. 937. Officers and employees not to be agents of
    claims.

      No person  shall be an officer or employee of the House, or continue in
    its employment, who shall be an agent for the prosecution of any claim
    against the Government or be interested in such claim otherwise than as
    an original claimant or than in the proper discharge of official duties.

      This rule was adopted in 1842 (V, 7227). It was renumbered January 3,
    1953, p. 24. It was amended by the Ethics Reform Act of 1989 to include
    employees in the prohibition against prosecuting or having an interest
    in any claim against the government, to specify the inapplicability of
    that prohibition to the discharge of official duties, and to delete an
    obsolete reference to the Committee on House Administration (P.L. 101-
    194, Nov. 30, 1989).

      Several provisions of the Federal criminal code also address the
    conduct of Members, officers, and employees with respect to claims
    against the government (18 U.S.C. 203-207, 216).