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Dick Durbin: “One last question. I want to try to understand. I ask the Senator do you not say, in your amendment, that a trespasser…”

On the recordOctober 11, 2001
One last question. I want to try to understand. I ask the Senator do you not say, in your amendment, that a trespasser does not include someone who is permitted to use a computer by the owner or operator of the computer?
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Questioning an amendment related to computer use during Senate floor debate.

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