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On the recordFebruary 10, 1994
Once again, the picture I want to paint here is this: As you prepare to vote, consider this, consider that you see in front of you a high-ranking Member of Congress against whom some allegations have been made and which allegations reach the desk of the Attorney General. Under the bill that has been now amended by Bryant which really returns to the original language of the bill, the Bryant bill language under that, the Attorney General does not have any duty at all to move those allegations but has utmost discretion to deal with it as the Attorney General wants to do. Consider the alternative: The Gekas amendment, when these allegations are made against this high-ranking Member of Congress, the Attorney General, upon seeing them, must act on it. And why? Because we make the language comparable to that that is applicable to Members of the Cabinet.
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Hon. George W. Gekas
Pennsylvania

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Gekas discusses the implications of the Gekas amendment regarding allegations against high-ranking Members of Congress.

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