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Carl Levin: “The issue is really the same today, because the Senator could take gifts now under $100. The question is, does that…”

On the recordMay 5, 1994
The issue is really the same today, because the Senator could take gifts now under $100. The question is, does that create any kind of impression? If you really had a problem with that, if you in your good conscience, and you have a good conscience, had a problem with that kind of situation you can do what hundreds of people do today. They ask the Ethics Committee. As a matter of fact, we heard earlier today that there are so many people asking the Ethics Committees for opinions that in the first year under the new rule there was something like, if I remember the figure was thousands of inquiries under existing rules of the Ethics Committee to get opinions on whether or not we should do things.
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Carl Levin
Democratic · Michigan
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Editor's note · Context

Discussing the implications of accepting gifts under $100 and the role of the Ethics Committee.

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