    [United States Senate Manual, 107th Congress]
    [S. Doc. 107-1]
    [Non-statutory Standing Orders and Regulations Affecting the Business of the Senate]
    [Pages 118-119]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

            87  STANDARDS OF CONDUCT FOR MEMBERS OF THE SENATE AND OFFICERS
                                 AND EMPLOYEES OF THE SENATE

                    Resolved, It is declared to be the policy of the Senate
                that--
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                    \1\ Became Senate Commission on Art, and enacted into
                permanent law by Pub.L. 100-696, Nov. 18, 1988. See 2 U.S.C.
                Sec. Sec. 2101-2107; Senate Manual sections 814-820.
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                    (a) The ideal concept of public office, expressed by the
                words, ``A public office is a public trust'', signifies that
                the

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                officer has been entrusted with public power by the people;
                that the officer holds this power in trust to be used only
                for their benefit and never for the benefit of himself or of
                a few; and that the officer must never conduct his own
                affairs so as to infringe on the public interest. All
                official conduct of Members of the Senate should be guided
                by this paramount concept of public office.
                    (b) These rules, as the written expression of certain
                standards of conduct, complement the body of unwritten but
                generally accepted standards that continue to apply to the
                Senate.

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                                        [S. Jour. 247, 90-2, Mar. 22, 1968.]