S. 885, to Modify Congressional Restrictions on Gifts
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Excerpt from S. 885, to Modify Congressional Restrictions on Gifts: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management of the Committee on Govermental Affairs United States Senate One Hundred Third Congress First Session on S. 885 The Subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 2:10 p.m., in room SD-342, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Hon. Carl Levin, Chairman of the Subcommittee, presiding. Present: Senator Levin. Staff Present: Linda J. Gustitus, Staff Director and Chief Counsel; Peter K. Levine, Counsel; Frankie de Vergie, Chief Clerk; James Calvin Cunningham III and Michael McGaughey, Interns. Opening Statement of Senator Levin Senator Levin. The Subcommittee will come to order. Today´s hearing is on S. 885, a bill introduced by Senator Frank Lautenberg to limit the acceptance of gifts, meals, and travel by Members of Congress and congressional staff, so that the rules in the Congress would then be substantially similar to restrictions that are applicable to executive branch officials. This bill comes to our Subcommittee with the added momentum of a Senate resolution adopted on May 6, 1993, which expressed the sense of the Senate that we should enact a comprehensive gift ban this year, in this session of the Congress. While legislation pertaining to Senate rules is ordinarily directed to the Senate Rules Committee, this particular bill, because it proposes statutory restrictions on the acceptance of gifts applicable to both the Senate and the House, was referred by the Parliamentarian to the Governmental Affairs Committee. There is no question in my mind that the current congressional gift rules are inadequate and are subject to abuse. For example, while the gift rules applicable to executive branch employees prohibit the acceptance of even a single gift with a value in excess of $20, unless the circumstances indicate that the gift is motivated by family relationship or personal friendship, our rules permit the acceptance of any number of gifts under $100 from the same source. In theory, that means that we could accept a $95 gift from the same source every day and, by the way, not even disclose it. Even gifts of more than $100 are allowed, up to a total of $250 a year from a single source. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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