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Mark Warner: “I concur with that very simply. So how best to do it, I think, is as follows. My amendment would strike the language of…”

On the recordJune 16, 2004
I concur with that very simply. So how best to do it, I think, is as follows. My amendment would strike the language of the Leahy amendment and substitute language which would make it explicitly extraterritorial, which means we can reach out to these companies that are alleged to have done wrong and make applicable existing criminal statutes, statutes which have been on our books for a long period of time, which have been tested in the courts, and we know precisely what the language means.
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Mark Warner
Democratic · Virginia

Editor's note · Context

Discussing an amendment related to criminal penalties in military contracting.

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