John Sarbanes actually said...

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

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

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

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