Because on April 11, the day the act was issued, the backgrounder said that the Federal Accountability Act will enshrine the provisions of the current Conflict of Interest and Post-Employment Code for Public Office Holders into a new conflict of interest act. Five of the provisions of the current code are not in the act, including the rule to act with honesty, to uphold the highest ethical standards, to avoid potential and apparent conflicts of interest, to not use government property for your own purposes, and the rule that bans owing anyone who could benefit from your decision-making. That is not the current code. When you delete five provisions of the current code, you are not enshrining the provisions of the current code into the act, as was specified in last week's release.
