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Carl Levin: “It means the current Senate rule has the same problem which my friend from Alaska describes. The current Senate rule…”

On the recordMay 5, 1994
It means the current Senate rule has the same problem which my friend from Alaska describes. The current Senate rule applies to spouses. Do we have a constitutional right to apply that rule to spouses or to dependents? The answer is that is the same problem in the current Senate rule. That is not a new problem added by this language. That is the current Senate rule which says ``no Member, officer or employee of the Senate, or the spouse or the dependent thereof shall knowingly accept,'' et cetera. But that is the current language.
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Carl Levin
Democratic · Michigan
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Editor's note · Context

Discussing the implications of the current Senate rule regarding spouses and dependents.

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