5 U.S.C. § 13101: Definitions

The term “congressional ethics committees” means the Select Committee on Ethics of the Senate and the Committee on Ethics of the House of Representatives. is unmarried and under age 21 and is living in the household of such reporting individual; or is a dependent of such reporting individual within the meaning of section 152 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 ( 26 U.S.C. 152 ). The term “designated agency ethics official” means an officer or employee who is designated to administer the provisions of this subchapter within an agency. The term “executive branch” includes each Executive agency (as defined in section 105 of this title ), other than the Government Accountability Office, and any other entity or administrative unit in the executive branch. bequest and other forms of inheritance; suitable mementos of a function honoring the reporting individual; food, lodging, transportation, and entertainment provided by a foreign government within a foreign country or by the United States Government, the District of Columbia, or a State or local government or political subdivision thereof; food and beverages which are not consumed in connection with a gift of overnight lodging; communications to the offices of a reporting individual, including subscriptions to newspapers and periodicals; or consumable products provided by home-State businesses to the offices of a reporting individual who is an elected official, if those products are intended for consumption by persons other than such reporting individual. The term “honoraria” means the plural of “honorarium” as defined in section 13141 of this title . The term “income” means all income from whatever source derived, including but not limited to the following items: compensation for services, including fees, commissions, and similar items; gross income derived from business (and net income if the individual elects to include it); gains derived from dealings in property; interest; rents; royalties; dividends; annuities; income from life insurance and endowment contracts; pensions; income from discharge of indebtedness; distributive share of partnership income; and income from an interest in an estate or trust. The term “Judicial Conference” means the Judicial Conference of the United States. The term “judicial employee” means any employee of the judicial branch of the Government, of the United States Sentencing Commission, of the Tax Court, of the Court of Federal Claims, of the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, or of the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, who is not a judicial officer and who is authorized to perform adjudicatory functions with respect to proceedings in the judicial branch, or who occupies a position for which the rate of basic pay is equal to or greater than 120 percent of the minimum rate of basic pay payable for GS–15 of the General Schedule. The term “judicial officer” means the Chief Justice of the United States, the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court, and the judges of the United States courts of appeals, United States district courts, including the district courts in Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Virgin Islands, Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, Court of International Trade, Tax Court, Court of Federal Claims, Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, and any court created by Act of Congress, the judges of which are entitled to hold office during good behavior. the Architect of the Capitol; the Botanic Gardens; the Congressional Budget Office; the Government Accountability Office; the Government Publishing Office; the Library of Congress; the United States Capitol Police; the Office of Technology Assessment; and any other agency, entity, office, or commission established in the legislative branch. The term “Member of Congress” means a United States Senator, a Representative in Congress, a Delegate to Congress, or the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico. each officer or employee of the legislative branch (except any officer or employee of the Government Accountability Office) who, for at least 60 days, occupies a position for which the rate of basic pay is equal to or greater than 120 percent of the minimum rate of basic pay payable for GS–15 of the General Schedule; each officer or employee of the Government Accountability Office who, for at least 60 consecutive days, occupies a position for which the rate of basic pay, minus the amount of locality pay that would have been authorized under section 5304 of this title (had the officer or employee been paid under the General Schedule) for the locality within which the position of such officer or employee is located (as determined by the Comptroller General), is equal to or greater than 120 percent of the minimum rate of basic pay payable for GS–15 of the General Schedule; and at least one principal assistant designated for purposes of this paragraph by each Member who does not have an employee who occupies a position for which the rate of basic pay is equal to or greater than 120 percent of the minimum rate of basic pay payable for GS–15 of the General Schedule. The term “personal hospitality of any individual” means hospitality extended for a nonbusiness purpose by an individual, not a corporation or organization, at the personal residence of that individual or the individual’s family or on property or facilities owned by that individual or the individual’s family. provided by the United States Government, the District of Columbia, or a State or local government or political subdivision thereof; required to be reported by the reporting individual under section 7342 of this title ; or required to be reported under section 304 of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 ( 52 U.S.C. 30104 ). The term “relative” means an individual who is related to the reporting individual, as father, mother, son, daughter, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, great aunt, great uncle, first cousin, nephew, niece, husband, wife, grandfather, grandmother, grandson, granddaughter, father-in-law, mother-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, stepfather, stepmother, stepson, stepdaughter, stepbrother, stepsister, half brother, half sister, or who is the grandfather or grandmother of the spouse of the reporting individual, and shall be deemed to include the fiance or fiancee of the reporting individual. the Secretary of Commerce, with respect to matters concerning the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; the Secretary of Health and Human Services, with respect to matters concerning the Public Health Service; and the Secretary of State, with respect to matters concerning the Foreign Service. the Select Committee on Ethics of the Senate, for Senators, officers and employees of the Senate, and other officers or employees of the legislative branch required to file financial disclosure reports with the Secretary of the Senate pursuant to section 13105(h) of this title ; the Committee on Ethics of the House of Representatives, for Members, officers and employees of the House of Representatives and other officers or employees of the legislative branch required to file financial disclosure reports with the Clerk of the House of Representatives pursuant to section 13105(h) of this title ; the Judicial Conference for judicial officers and judicial employees; and the Office of Government Ethics for all executive branch officers and employees. The term “value” means a good faith estimate of the dollar value if the exact value is neither known nor easily obtainable by the reporting individual. 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.” 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.” The term ‘Member of Congress’ means a member of the Senate or House of Representatives, a Delegate to the House of Representatives, and the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico. any individual (other than a Member of Congress), whose compensation is disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate or the Chief Administrative Officer of the House of Representatives; and any other officer or employee of the legislative branch (as defined in section 13101(11) of title 5 , United States Code). has the meaning given the term ‘employee’ under section 2105 of title 5 , United States Code; and the President; the Vice President; and an employee of the United States Postal Service or the Postal Regulatory Commission. The term ‘judicial officer’ has the meaning given that term under section 13101(10) of title 5 , United States Code. The term ‘judicial employee’ has the meaning given that term in section 13101(9) of title 5 , United States Code. The term ‘supervising ethics office’ has the meaning given that term in section 13101(18) of title 5 , United States Code.”