Some consultants have doubts about the value of full-time ethics offices.

The ethics office also acts at times as an advocate.

Each agency polices its own workers, and the ethics office could not say how many complaints have been made under the rules.

Even without its increased budget, the ethics office has raised some hard questions for Administration officials.

The Senator replied that while the ethics office clearly had not "lived up to their duties, you have fallen short, too."

The ethics office had not, in fact, conducted such an investigation.

Should laws be enacted giving the ethics office sharper teeth?

Last month, the ethics office issued the right decision, though it was only a draft.

The ethics office is an agency within the executive branch.

"I went and talked to the ethics office and told them the conversation had occurred."