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On the recordMarch 22, 1994
Let me just say that obviously a resolution like this involves issues where there are some conflicting crosscurrents. The most important conflicting crosscurrents are the right of the public to know and the obligation of Mr. Fiske to conduct a full and fair investigation. And those do conflict at times, not just on the issue of immunity which the resolution handles, but as any prosecutor can tell you, he certainly does not want his witnesses to state their full point of view before the public before he gets a chance to present the case, examine them, et cetera. So you have that conflicting, and then you have another conflict here, and that is the public's certain right, a right which we all support, to find out what is going on. But at the same time, the conflict being the political overtones to this where the motives of both sides are doubted. And I think this resolution deals with those two conflicts very well.
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Charles E. Schumer
New York

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Discussing the balance between public knowledge and the integrity of an investigation.

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