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Dale Bumpers: Senator, let us get back to my amendment. Can you quarrel with the premise of this amendment, which says that, under…

On the recordMay 5, 1994
Senator, let us get back to my amendment. Can you quarrel with the premise of this amendment, which says that, under your provision, I am going to have to be very careful to keep a value of a gift under $20? As I say, that is tough enough under $100. It is simply not worth it for $20. And in order to keep from laying the minefields that the Senator from Kentucky alluded to yesterday, which is my principal objection to this, in order to alleviate that problem and eliminate those minefields, everybody in the United States Senate can understand that he or she is not to accept a gift, period. Now why is that not an easier determination than whether it is worth $19.95 or $20.05?
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Dale Bumpers
Arkansas

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Discussing an amendment related to the acceptance of gifts in the Senate.

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