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Patrick Leahy: “Senator Cornyn and I worked hard to ensure that our amendment addresses the issue of undisclosed self-dealing in a…”

On the recordFebruary 2, 2012
Senator Cornyn and I worked hard to ensure that our amendment addresses the issue of undisclosed self-dealing in a narrow and precise manner. To make sure there are no ambiguities in the updated honest services statute our amendment creates, we carefully defined the term ``material information'' and made sure we did so in such a way that our definition would apply only to the precise section of the Criminal Code where the new undisclosed self-dealing provision will appear.
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Patrick Leahy
Democratic · Vermont
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Feb 2, 2012

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