Dale Bumpers said "I would say, Mr. President, that the Bumpers amendment is clearly the direction at this point in which we ought to go. I think it is going to be an administrative nightmare for the Ethics Committee and a complete disaster for every Senate office to try to determine what is or is not worth $20, dealing with all of these exceptions which the Bumpers amendment does not touch. But even that is going to be troublesome in terms of what is a friend and what is not a friend. But at least, it seems to me, in order to try to have some simplicity, something at least understandable to the reasonable person, and also to cut down, from a selfish point of view here, to cut down on the workload of the Ethics Committee, it seems to me we ought to go down to zero. So I think the Senator from Arkansas has a good idea here, given where we are in the course of this debate." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordMay 5, 1994

I would say, Mr. President, that the Bumpers amendment is clearly the direction at this point in which we ought to go. I think it is going to be an administrative nightmare for the Ethics Committee and a complete disaster for every Senate office to try to determine what is or is not worth $20, dealing with all of these exceptions which the Bumpers amendment does not touch. But even that is going to be troublesome in terms of what is a friend and what is not a friend. But at least, it seems to me, in order to try to have some simplicity, something at least understandable to the reasonable person, and also to cut down, from a selfish point of view here, to cut down on the workload of the Ethics Committee, it seems to me we ought to go down to zero. So I think the Senator from Arkansas has a good idea here, given where we are in the course of this debate.

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Dale Bumpers

Arkansas

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Editor's note · Context

Discussing the implications of the Bumpers amendment during Senate floor debate.

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