My colleague said that there is an exception for criminal, but let me read what might be more relevant here, the title of her amendment as she wrote it: Parent/Child Testimonial Privileges in Federal Civil and Criminal Proceedings. If the gentlewoman in fact intends to exempt criminal, putting ``criminal'' in the title is not the most artful drafting I have ever seen.
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