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Ethics
I have always believed that public office is a public trust.
The first order of business of the 110th Congress was to restore integrity, civility and fiscal responsibility to the House of Representatives. On the first day of the new 110th Congress, I voted to ban gifts from lobbyists, end the abuses connected to lobbyist-funded congressional travel, require full transparency and end the abuse of special interest earmarks, and ensure this Congress upholds the highest ethical standards. In addition, the new rules require mandatory ethics training annually for all House employees and Members of Congress.
In addition, the U.S. House has recently established the Office of Congressional Ethics which will bring greater accountability and transparency to the ethics enforcement process by requiring an independent review of alleged ethics violations by individuals who are not Members of Congress.
We must restore the faith of the American people in our public institutions. Neither party can claim total innocence of Washington misdeeds, but I believe the people of North Carolina sent me to Congress to work in a bipartisan manner to serve the public interest. That is what I try to do every day as your United States representative
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