[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.]