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A statutory regime governing the acceptance of foreign gifts by US officials.
Yes — but with important limits: personal gifts from private individuals or domestic sources can often be retained by a president, while gifts from foreign governments are governed by the Constitution...
Recent administrations have relied on a tangle of statutes, executive-branch offices and ad hoc practice to record, value and sometimes disclose gifts to the president and first family—principally the...
Yes — the President and First Family are constrained by the Constitution’s Foreign Emoluments Clause and by federal statute, chiefly the Foreign Gifts and Decorations Act, which together create limits...
Federal statutes, Senate Rules, and the Senate Select Committee on Ethics jointly regulate whether senators and their offices may accept gifts, travel or donations that are foreign-linked, require rep...
’s layered traditional federal gift statutes and regulations with a 2009 executive order——and an ethics pledge that tightened lobbyist gift bans and “revolving door” restrictions for political appoint...
The General Services Administration (GSA) sets a "minimal value" threshold that determines which gifts from foreign governments federal employees must report or turn over; statute requires GSA to reca...