“Biden pledged to create a Commission on Federal Ethics to oversee and enforce federal anti-corruption and ethics laws, with broad investigative and civil enforcement authority expanding on powers now held by the FEC, Office of Government Ethics, and Office of Special Counsel, and with power to enforce subpoenas and refer matters for criminal investigation to the DOJ.”
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Biden pledged during the 2020 campaign to create a Commission on Federal Ethics with subpoena and civil-enforcement power expanding on the FEC, OGE, and Office of Special Counsel. Across his full 2021-2025 term, no such commission was created by statute or executive order, and no bill or formal administration legislative proposal to create it was ever introduced. As of February 2022, a government-accountability advocate publicly noted in trade press that no commission or even a proposal for one existed, and no such proposal materialized in the remainder of the term. The promise was never meaningfully pursued.
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