[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 254 Agreed to Senate (ATS)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
S. RES. 254

 To direct the Senate Legal Counsel to represent the Office of Senate 
Fair Employment Practices, and to authorize the Office of the Sergeant 
at Arms of the United States Senate to intervene and to be represented 
by its counsel of choice, in Kenneth Riggin, et al. v. Office of Senate 
          Fair Employment Practices, No. 94-6004 (Fed. Cir.).


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

              August 25 (legislative day, August 18), 1994

    Mr. Mitchell (for himself and Mr. Dole) submitted the following 
             resolution; which was considered and agreed to

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                               RESOLUTION


 
 To direct the Senate Legal Counsel to represent the Office of Senate 
Fair Employment Practices, and to authorize the Office of the Sergeant 
at Arms of the United States Senate to intervene and to be represented 
by its counsel of choice, in Kenneth Riggin, et al. v. Office of Senate 
          Fair Employment Practices, No. 94-6004 (Fed. Cir.).

Whereas, in the case of Kenneth Riggin, et al. v. Office of Senate Fair 
        Employment Practices, No. 94-6004, pending in the United States Court of 
        Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the Office of Senate Fair Employment 
        Practices is the respondent in a proceeding under section 309 of the 
        Civil Rights Act of 1991 (2 U.S.C. 1209), to review a final decision 
        concerning allegations of discrimination in Senate employment;
Whereas section 303(f) of the Civil Rights Act of 1991 (2 U.S.C. 1203(f)), 
        provides that for the purpose of representation by the Senate Legal 
        Counsel, the Office of Senate Fair Employment Practices shall be deemed 
        a committee within the meaning of title VII of the Ethics in Government 
        Act of 1978 (2 U.S.C. 288, et seq.);
Whereas, pursuant to sections 703(a) and 704(a)(1) of the Ethics in Government 
        Act of 1978 (2 U.S.C. 288b(a), 288c(a)(1)) the Senate may direct its 
        counsel to defend a committee of the Senate in any civil action in which 
        there is placed in issue any action taken by such committee in its 
        official capacity; and
Whereas, in accordance with section 2348 of title 28, United States Code, as 
        made applicable by section 309(b) of the Civil Rights Act of 1991 (2 
        U.S.C. 1209(b)) the Office of the Sergeant at Arms of the United States 
        Senate, as a party in interest in the underlying proceeding within the 
        Senate, may intervene on judicial review of the final decision in that 
        proceeding: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the Senate Legal Counsel is directed to represent 
the Office of Senate Fair Employment Practices in the case of Kenneth 
Riggin, et al. v. Office of Senate Fair Employment Practices.
    Sec. 2. The Office of the Sergeant at Arms of the United States 
Senate may as a matter of statutory right intervene and be represented 
by its counsel of choice in the case of Kenneth Riggin; et al. v. 
Office of Senate Fair Employment Practices.
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