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Jasper Packard: “Mr. Speaker, the gift ban issue is a very serious issue. It certainly demands and deserves a great deal of debate. To…”

On the recordSeptember 6, 1995
Mr. Speaker, the gift ban issue is a very serious issue. It certainly demands and deserves a great deal of debate. To put anything of this consequence, which consists of 51 pages of legislation into the confines of a very limited debate during this conference report would be an absolute mistake. It ought to stand on its own; it ought to be debated on its own. It certainly should not be put on as a rider to a conference report that has 1 hour of debate on the rule and 1 hour of debate on the report itself. It is an issue of such great consequence that it ought to have much more than that. So I would strongly urge the Members to not vote to allow this to go onto this conference report without the opportunity to have extensive debate and extensive review.
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Jasper Packard
Republican · Indiana
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Addressing the inclusion of a gift ban issue in a conference report during House debate.

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