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All I am saying, I think that is entirely correct, and ours allows that. The difference is ours is limited to $75, yours is unlimited, except yours is close personal friend. All I am saying is that the Senator from Minnesota, in quavering…
Is it not a fact that the Levin-Wellstone amendment allows the same thing, only while ours would be limited to $75, yours is unlimited, provided it is motivated by personal friendship, to be decided by the Member?
The Senator just mentioned our bill allows for unlimited and undisclosed meals, et cetera, and listed four things dealing with meals, tickets and gifts.
Did the Senator know that in the last 2 years the Senate gave $1.3 million to charity on these direct fees?
The actual wording is not that the trip is not substantially recreational, but that the activities as part of the trip are not substantially recreational, which I think is a significant difference because you can have a serious trip that…
So in effect, any involvement with charities by Senators, whether it is sponsoring a charity, whether it is being the honoree of the charity, whether it is using your name on the stationery, or being on a sponsoring committee, All of that…
It is my understanding of S. 1935 that it will be practically impossible for Members to make an effort, either directly or indirectly, to assist worthwhile causes--that is, tax-exempt, charitable entities.
Under section a(1), it provides that no Member or spouse may knowingly accept a gift provided directly or indirectly by lobbyists. And it goes on to say in subsection (c), that the following items are subject to the restrictions as…
Yes. When you go to, say, the Opera Ball, I do not know what one of these dinners down here will cost. You go down at the hotel. I do not feel like I am really being entertained. I feel like I am doing when I go to those things at the…
It would sure make it a lot more expensive to do things that are ordinary parts of being a Senator as far as I am concerned.
Under the Senator's amendment, would he not agree with me that rather than to have three interpretative rulings on--I forget what it was the Senator said; three rulings for events? Would you really have to have an interpretative ruling on…
I did not. I said this is vague; we do not know what the number is. And I do not want a number. I do not want the amendment. I am just illustrating how difficult this amendment is to comply with. It is a nightmare.
Do you say you should not go to the symphony ball, ambassador ball, National Guard, the opera ball, what have you?
Take whatever you want to. Let us say the tobacco industry goes to wherever you want to go to and they have fun and they do not do any serious work, we will say that is a bad trip. If you had to disclose that, do you think any Senator is…
Let me ask the Senator, if what you say is true that 99.999 percent of the people in the country think ``these trips,'' you have in mind some trips other than what I have in mind----
Suppose at the Opera Ball that most of the money comes from lobbyists and the Opera Ball Committee, which would be--widely invites people, but most of the money comes from lobbyists. It either comes from lobbyists or companies that are…
It is with pleasure that I introduce to the United States Senate Madam Wu Yi, the Minister of Foreign Trade from the People's Republic of China, who is standing in the back of the Chamber. She is a very distinguished Minister who is…
I understand the Senator's answer to be yes, that he does agree with me that this would enhance the bargaining power of Catellus if the amendment of the Senator from Utah passes.
I ask the Senator a second question and maybe even a more salient question which is, as a businessman if the Senator from Utah was in the position of the Catellus Corp., keeping in mind they would have this ability to veto this national…
My question is if in order to have a national park you must acquire 90 percent of the private lands and if almost two-thirds of the private lands are owned by one corporation, could not that corporation by withholding its consent to sell…
The Corporation has no legal obligation to pay the termination costs. The Energy Policy Act is clear on these matters. The Department of Energy remains responsible for liabilities attributable to the operation of the uranium enrichment…
When we wrote to Mr. Panetta, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, about this last November, he assured us that "The administration feels that there are considerable balances remaining on the DOE account that have not been…
The Department of Energy. Research and development on AVLIS have been the Department's responsibility. Any termination expenses will be the Department's liability.
These are funds that the Department of Energy has retained for purposes of terminating AVLIS--the atomic vapor laser isotope separation program--if the United States Enrichment Corporation decides not to build a commercial AVLIS plant…
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