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On the recordMarch 2, 1995
To answer your question about whether or not this body would vote for the fifth amendment, would you leave any of that self-incrimination stuff in your version?
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Barney Frank
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Questioning the inclusion of self-incrimination protections in a proposed amendment.

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