[Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and the Rules of the House of Representatives, 104th Congress]
[104th Congress]
[House Document 103-342]
[Rules of the House of Representatives]
[Pages 767-768]
[From the U.S. Government Printing 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.



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  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).