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

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