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Russ Feingold: I will have him respond on my time. The situation is that you are raising situations with personal friends, and in those…

On the recordMarch 29, 2006
I will have him respond on my time. The situation is that you are raising situations with personal friends, and in those situations I don't disagree, I don't think there would be a problem. I think the exception would be properly interpreted. I am asking the Senator to at least perhaps consider whether we really want the kind of scenario that the Senator posits, where a company basically lines up people to come in and act as the person that uses the company credit card. It seems to me we have an opportunity to fix something here, not go as far as I want to go but at least prevent the use of company resources and at the same time avoid the possibility of the true personal friendship situation from being affected.
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Russ Feingold
Democratic · Wisconsin

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