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87 Nw. U. L. Rev. 57 (1992-1993)
Public Interest, Private Income: Conflicts and Control Limits on the Outside Income of Government Officials

handle is hein.journals/illlr87 and id is 77 raw text is: Copyright 1992 by Northwestern University, School of Law Printed in U.S.A. Northwestern University Law Review Vol. 87, No. 1 PUBLIC INTEREST, PRIVATE INCOME: CONFLICTS AND CONTROL LIMITS ON THE OUTSIDE INCOME OF GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS Beth Nolan * I. INTRODUCTION ........................................... 58 II. BACKGROUND ........................................ 62 A. An Overview of Conflict of Interest Regulation ........ 63 B. An Overview of Outside Income Limits ............... 66 C. A Brief History of the Prohibition on Salary Supplementation ..................................... 67 III. CONFLICTS ............................................... 70 A. Conflicts Theory and Outside Income ................. 71 1. The Ends of Government Conflicts Regulation ..... 71 2. The Means of Government Conflicts Regulation ... 81 3. Citizen Government and the Functioning Revolving D oor ............................................. 84 B. Existing Limits on Outside Income .................... 88 1. Salary Supplementation ........................... 88 2. Moonlighting and Daytripping: Other Outside Earned Income ................................... 107 3. G ifts ............................................. 114 4. Outside Financial Interests ........................ 116 C. Recapping the Conflicts Principle ..................... 117 IV. CONTROL ................................................. 118 A. Introduction ......................................... 118 B. Congress and Control ................................ 119 1. The Power of the Purse ........................... 120 2. The Constitution and Control ..................... 127 3. How Congress Should Protect its Control Interests. 132 C. The Executive and Control ........................... 138 • Associate Professor of Law, The National Law Center, George Washington University. Ab- bie Baynes, Cynthia Farina, Eric Greenberg, Tom Morgan, Bob Peroni, Todd Peterson, Peter Raven-Hansen, Roger Schechter, Josh Schwartz, Lynda Guild Simpson, Richard Simpson, Janis Sposato, and Kate Stith provided valuable comments on earlier drafts of this Article, and I am grateful for their insight and their help. I thank Jim Power, '92, who provided excellent support, ideas, and collaboration through primary research assistance, and Terri Bowman, '93 and Grace Shin, '94, who also provided excellent research assistance.

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