John Sarbanes: “In effect, we are repudiating the option of continued Government payment of the election as a way of in effect losing…”

“In effect, we are repudiating the option of continued Government payment of the election as a way of in effect losing your supervision over the Teamsters election. I do not see how the Senator can take that position when questions have been raised about the validity of the 1996 election. This is the very thing that the court is going to be deciding up in New York, and we ought to let the court decide what the consent decree means. I think this exchange just now is a pretty dramatic illustration of why we ought to let the court decide what it means because otherwise we are running the very high risk of exactly what the Senator said he would countenance happening; namely, an unsupervised election. I am sure there are many Members who do not want an unsupervised election.”