[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 282 Agreed to Senate (ATS)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
S. RES. 282

 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 be represented by 
    its counsel of choice in Rhonda Farmer v. Office of Senate Fair 
             Employment Practices, No. 94-6005 (Fed. Cir.).


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

            October 7 (legislative day, September 12), 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 be represented by 
    its counsel of choice in Rhonda Farmer v. Office of Senate Fair 
             Employment Practices, No. 94-6005 (Fed. Cir.).

Whereas, in the case of Rhonda Farmer v. Office of Senate Fair Employment 
        Practices, No. 94-6005, 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) and 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 28 U.S.C. Sec. 2348, 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, The Senate Legal Counsel is directed to represent the 
Office of Senate Fair Employment Practices in the case of Rhonda Farmer 
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 Rhonda Farmer v. Office of the 
Senate Fair Employment Practices.
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