My judgment may be wrong, and the Ethics Committee may say, ``Senator, are you telling me that you thought it was reasonable to take a bottle of wine from 20 different people on 5 different occasions each for a total of 100 bottles?''
Discussing potential ethical concerns regarding gifts received.
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So if someone wants to give me a $20 bottle of wine every day 365 days a year that is not a violation?
If I may, let me say I am not here to debate whether the executive rules are stricter or more lenient than ours. I am really not concerned about them. I am concerned about the ones that my colleagues and I in the U.S. Senate are going to…
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…
That is much simpler, and I have not laid a minefield for myself. I am not going to be criticized for receiving $20, which somebody might do under the case I just gave you.
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