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Byline: Ovetta Wiggins ANNAPOLIS, Md. - Gov. Wes Moore (D) signed an executive order releasing $69 million for Democratic priorities that former governor Larry Hogan (R) had held back as [...]

Byline: Philip Bump From the outset, Republicans were opposed to the creation of an independent Office of Congressional Ethics. The idea arose in the 110th Congress, soon after Democrats had [...]

Byline: Mariana Alfaro; Rick Maese; Ellen Francis Former president Donald Trump was spotted using the presidential seal on multiple items during the LIV Golf tournament at his Bedminster, N.J., golf [...]

Byline: Mike DeBonis and Elise Viebeck WASHINGTON - Liberal activists and Democratic lawmakers are angling to use a planned Senate vote Tuesday on broad legislation to overhaul election access, campaign [...]

Byline: Mike DeBonis WASHINGTON - Congressional Democrats have tweaked their marquee voting-rights, campaign-finance and ethics bill before a Senate committee vote next week, addressing concerns raised by elections administrators but [...]

Byline: Tyler Pager WASHINGTON - Housing and Urban Development Secretary Marcia L. Fudge may have violated the Hatch Act this week in the White House briefing room when discussing the [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer WASHINGTON - President-elect Joe Biden will bar his senior presidential appointees from accepting special bonuses akin to 'golden parachutes' from former employers for joining the government, while [...]

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Byline: Michelle Ye Hee Lee and Josh Dawsey WASHINGTON - The decision by the Republican National Convention to feature President Donald Trump conducting official business inside the White House underscores [...]

Byline: Walter M. Shaub Jr. Late Tuesday night, Assistant to the President Ivanka Trump tweeted an odd photo of herself dramatically holding a can of Goya black beans. Above the [...]

This editorial appears in The Washington Post: - - - In Maryland, a veteran lawmaker has been charged with using campaign funds to cover her personal expenses. She faces the [...]

Byline: Mike DeBonis and John Wagner WASHINGTON - The House approved a far-reaching elections and ethics bill Friday - one that would change the way congressional elections are funded, impose [...]

Byline: Reis Thebault WASHINGTON - The U.S. government's top ethics watchdog has ruled that Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross violated his ethics agreement by inaccurately reporting stock holdings in his 2018 [...]

Byline: Editorial Board THE REPUTATION of former Metro chairman Jack Evans wasn't the only thing that was tarnished amid the swirl of allegations that he used his public office to [...]

Byline: Mike DeBonis Responding to action in the House, Senate Democrats unveiled their own version of a sweeping election and ethics reform bill Wednesday -- one that Senate Majority Leader [...]

Byline: Mike DeBonisWASHINGTON - House Democratic leaders are set to publicly unveil on Friday the outline of a broad political overhaul bill that will include provisions for public financing of [...]

Byline: Lena H. Sun The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention resigned her position on Wednesday after just half a year because of 'complex financial interests' that [...]

Byline: Matea Gold White House social media director Dan Scavino Jr. violated a federal law that bars public officials from using their positions for political activity when he urged President [...]

Byline: Matea Gold, Rosalind S. Helderman and Amy Brittain The word came down from White House officials late Friday afternoon: In a few hours, they would begin releasing the personal [...]

Byline: Drew Harwell, Tom Hamburger and Rosalind S. Helderman WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's official counselor, Kellyanne Conway, may have broken a key ethics rule Thursday morning when she told [...]

Byline: Arelis R. Hernández A Maryland Republican leader has filed an ethics complaint against Democratic congressional candidate Jesse Colvin, accusing the political newcomer of wrongfully claiming a tax deduction on [...]

Byline: Mike DeBonis If they win a majority in the House, Democrats should quickly hold a vote on a wide-ranging package of government reforms, the No. 2 Democratic leader in [...]

Byline: Jennifer Rubin McClatchy reports: Let's assume for a moment that none of the money collected came from a foreign state, and that no state benefits (domestic emoluments) -- such [...]

Byline: Aaron Blake A member of the Trump administration has again been found in violation of the Hatch Act, a federal law prohibiting the mixing of partisan politics with official [...]

Byline: Philip Bump The idea behind the Hatch Act is simple. There's a lot of power in Washington, and elected officials earn their positions to wield that power on behalf [...]

Byline: Tony Romm The Republicans who lead the country's top telecom agency arrived at an annual gathering of influential conservatives Friday hoping to tout their business bona fides -- from [...]

Byline: Mike DeBonis and Karoun Demirjian Defying the wishes of their top leaders, House Republicans voted behind closed doors Monday night to rein the independent ethics office created eight years [...]

Byline: Editorial Board AS CHAIR in 2011 of the Committee on Government Operations, Muriel E. Bowser, then Ward 4's Democratic representative, muscled needed ethics reform legislation through the D.C. Council [...]

Byline: Matea Gold White House officials are seeking to stop the federal government's top ethics officer from getting details about waivers granted to lobbyists and other appointees working in the [...]

MARYLAND Hogan-backed ethics bill passes Assembly The House of Delegates on Saturday gave final approval to a bill designed to strengthen the state's ethics laws, sending the measure to Gov. [...]

Byline: Laura Vozzella RICHMOND, Va. - Virginia legislators, meeting in overtime Friday in a capitol struggling to clean up its image, bowed to Gov. Terry McAuliffe's call to shrink the [...]

The following editorial appeared in Tuesday's Washington Post. For all their talk about ethics reform, Virginia lawmakers have proved stubbornly reluctant to give up the freebies they seem to view [...]

Byline: Laura Vozzella and Tom Jackman RICHMOND, Va. - Gov. Terry McAuliffe on Friday proposed amendments to the state's newly passed ethics bills, the latest attempt to rein in gift-giving [...]

The following editorial appeared in Thursday's Washington Post: After much huffing and puffing, and more than a little whining and blaming the media, Virginia lawmakers passed a state ethics bill [...]

Byline: Laura Vozzella RICHMOND, Va. - Criticism of an ethics bill adopted Friday in the final hour of the General Assembly session mounted this week, as a group of House [...]

Byline: Lisa Rein WASHINGTON - Hillary Rodham Clinton is not the first senior government leader to conduct official business on personal email, a practice that - while discouraged - apparently [...]

Byline: Laura Vozzella, Jenna Portnoy and Rachel Weiner RICHMOND, Va. - Senate Republicans were ready to sink an ethics reform bill they thought was flawed until House Speaker William Howell [...]

Byline: Jenna Portnoy and Rachel Weiner RICHMOND, Va. - The Virginia House and Senate on Tuesday reluctantly passed different government ethics bills that stop short of the changes Gov. Terry [...]

Byline: Editorial Board HARDLY ANY time passed between President-elect Donald Trump's announcement last Wednesday of his plan to separate himself from his sprawling business empire and ethic watchdogs' condemnation of [...]

Byline: Robert Rizzi I've practiced government ethics law for more than 15 years and have advised scores of presidential appointees of both political parties on how to comply with conflict-of-interest [...]

Byline: Jenna Portnoy RICHMOND -- Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) has proposed sweeping changes to a high-profile regional economic development grant program and to laws intended to restrict the gifts lawmakers [...]

Byline: Carl Gershman Monday is the 25th anniversary of the start of the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia. To mark the occasion, a bust of Václav Havel, the leader of that [...]

Byline: Antonio Olivo WASHINGTON - As Virginia's 10th Congressional District election approaches, Democrat John Foust has tried to make a controversy of Barbara Comstock's financial ties to a nonprofit group [...]

Byline: Laura Vozzella RICHMOND, Va. - Gov. Terry McAuliffe established a commission Thursday with a broad mandate to erase the stain of the McDonnell scandal with 'an enduring culture of [...]

Byline: Jenna Portnoy and Laura Vozzella RICHMOND, Va. - With the decisive convictions Thursday of former governor Robert McDonnell and his wife, Virginia finds itself in unfamiliar territory: deeply tainted [...]

The following editorial appeared in Sunday's Washington Post: Amid the non-stop titillation streaming from the trial of former Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell and his wife, Maureen, who are facing [...]

Byline: Jenna Portnoy RICHMOND, Va. - Virginia ethics reforms intended to shine light on public officials' practice of accepting lavish gifts - like the ones that landed former governor Robert [...]

Byline: Robert McCartney The purported 'ethics reform' bills sliding easily through the Virginia legislature include a curious, little-noticed provision. Under language approved by the Senate and House of Delegates, legislators [...]

Byline: Rachel Weiner Virginia lawmakers moved forward Monday on an ethics law overhaul and mental health legislation, two causes given urgency by recent events. The Senate passed the ethics package [...]

Byline: Patricia Sullivan By the standards of big-city politics, Alexandria is not a noticeably corrupt place. A few city employees have been arrested and convicted of embezzlement or assault in [...]