[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 283 Agreed to Senate (ATS)]







106th CONGRESS
  2d Session
S. RES. 283

  To direct the Senate Legal Counsel to intervene in the name of the 
  Senate Committee on Appropriations and the Senate Committee on the 
      Judiciary in United States of America v. Northwest Airlines 
                          Corporation, et al.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 7, 2000

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

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                               RESOLUTION


 
  To direct the Senate Legal Counsel to intervene in the name of the 
  Senate Committee on Appropriations and the Senate Committee on the 
      Judiciary in United States of America v. Northwest Airlines 
                          Corporation, et al.

Whereas, in the case of United States v. Northwest Airlines Corporation, et al., 
        Misc. No. 99-424, pending in the United States District Court for the 
        District of Columbia, defendant Northwest Airlines, by seeking to compel 
        the production of documents of the United States General Accounting 
        Office, has placed in issue the privileges of the United States Senate 
        under the Speech or Debate Clause, art. I, sec. 6, cl. 1, of the United 
        States Constitution; and
Whereas, pursuant to sections 703(c), 706(a), and 713(a) of the Ethics in 
        Government Act of 1978, 2 U.S.C. 288b(c), 288e(a), and 288l(a), the 
        Senate may direct its counsel to intervene in the name of a committee of 
        the Senate in any legal action in which the powers and responsibilities 
        of Congress under the Constitution are placed in issue: Now, therefore, 
        be it
    Resolved, That the Senate Legal Counsel is directed to intervene in 
the name of the Senate Committee on Appropriations and the Senate 
Committee on the Judiciary in the case of United States v. Northwest 
Airlines Corporation, et al., to protect the Senate's privileges under 
the Speech or Debate Clause of the Constitution.
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