Sec. 9101. Conflict of interest rules for Members of Congress and congressional staff
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Paragraph 6(a) of rule XXXVII of the Standing Rules of the Senate is amended— in clause (1), by adding or at the end; in clause (2), by striking ; or and inserting a period; and by striking clause (3). No Member or officer of either House of Congress or employee of a committee or Member of either House of Congress may knowingly use his or her official position to introduce or aid the progress or passage of legislation, a principal purpose of which is to further only his or her pecuniary interest, only the pecuniary interest of his or her immediate family, or only the pecuniary interest of a limited class of persons or enterprises, when he or she, or his or her immediate family, or enterprises controlled by them, are members of the affected class.
The provisions of this section are enacted by the Congress— as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the House of Representatives and the Senate, respectively, and as such they shall be considered as part of the rules of each House, respectively, or of that House to which they specifically apply, and such rules shall supersede other rules only to the extent that they are inconsistent therewith; and with full recognition of the constitutional right of either House to change such rules (so far as relating to such House) at any time, in the same manner, and to the same extent as in the case of any other rule of such House.