Conflict of Interest

This installment will be short. Who would have thought that I would have found something of value in this farce of a Health Care Plan?
While reading Section: 1191 Telehealth Expansions and Enhancements (Health Care by Phone); for heaven sakes, spell check doesn’t even know what telehealth is., I came across something that made me question another position of our House of Representatives.
Section 1191 (C) reads:

Conflicts of Interest – An advisory committee member may not participate with respect to a particular matter considered in an advisory committee meeting if such member (or an immediate family member of such member) has a financial interest that could be affected by the advice given to the Secretary with respect to such matter.

My question is this: Why don’t we have this same “Conflict of Interest” clause in committee’s congressmen and congresswomen sit on. There are many representatives that send contracts to family members, not withstanding Nancy Pelosi to the tune of 25 million dollars to her husbands company.

I do see that the House now requires the sponsor of earmark spending to certify that they have no vested interest in the earmark. My last question is: Is payback of “special interest” considered a vested interest?