John Sarbanes actually said...

In my 14 years there, I have been intimately involved in protecting the principle that public service is a public trust.

The American people gave this Congress and this committee a mandate to restore our democracy and cleanup our government.

We now find ourselves in an ethics crisis. The trigger was President Trump's refusal to divest his conflicting financial interests.

H.R. 1 kicks off what I hope will be a wave of reform.