; or (3) a position of a confidential or policy-determining character under schedule C of subpart C of part 213 of title 5, Code of Federal Regulations. C E. Scott Pruitt Accountability for Government Officials 121. Short title This subtitle may be cited as the E. Scott Pruitt Accountability for Government Officials Act of 2018 . 122. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) During his time as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt faced more than 12 separate ethics investigations including by the Environmental Protection Agency Inspector General, the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform of the House of Representatives, the Executive Office of the President, the Government Accountability Office, and the U.S. Office of Special Counsel. (2) On October 2, 2017, the Department of the Interior’s Inspector General confirmed they were investigating Secretary Ryan Zinke’s taxpayer-funded flights, including $12,375 on a chartered flight from Las Vegas to Montana where he spoke to a hockey team that is owned by one of Secretary Zinke’s largest political donors. (3) On March 14, 2018, CNN reported that Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson knew about a dining set worth $31,000 that was ordered for Carson’s office, knowledge of which he had previously denied. (4) On March 20, 2018, it was publicly reported that Scott Pruitt secured a sub-market lease for a Washington, DC, condominium owned by the wife of a lobbyist who represented clients with matters pending before the Environmental Protection Agency, and told the Washington Examiner that he was dumbfounded that that’s controversial . (5) On April 4, 2018, the New York Times reported that Scott Pruitt used a loophole in the Safe Water Drinking Act to give raises to his aides that had been explicitly denied by the White House. (6) On April 16, 2018, the Washington Post reported that Scott Pruitt had spent nearly $3,000,000 of taxpayer funds on security and travel since taking office in February 2017. (7) On April 26,