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Gerald B. H. Solomon: “The American people want the U.S. Congress, Members of Congress, covered under this Independent Counsel Act. The Gekas…”

On the recordFebruary 9, 1994
The American people want the U.S. Congress, Members of Congress, covered under this Independent Counsel Act. The Gekas amendment does just that. The truth of the matter is the House is not going to have the opportunity to vote for that on the floor, because it is the intention of the gentleman from Texas [Mr. Bryant], according to his testimony in the Committee on Rules, to offer a substitute knocking out the Gekas amendment. That means he is putting right back the same language as is in the bill now. If it was not a subterfuge, then why is he even bothering to offer his amendment knocking out Gekas? If we simply have an up-and-down vote on Gekas, and if the gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. Gekas] fails, then the Bryant language is already back in the bill. Who can explain that?
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Gerald B. H. Solomon
New York
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The speaker addresses the need for Congress to be included under the Independent Counsel Act and critiques an amendment.

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