[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 98 (Monday, July 25, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: July 25, 1994]
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 ANNOUNCEMENT OF INTENTION TO OFFER A MOTION TO INSTRUCT CONFEREES ON 
    H.R. 3355, VIOLENT CRIME CONTROL AND LAW ENFORCEMENT ACT OF 1993

  Mr. GEKAS. Mr. Speaker, pursuant to clause 1(c), rule XXVIII, I 
hereby serve notice that on Tuesday, July 26, 1994, I will offer the 
following motion to instruct House conferees on the bill H.R. 3355 to 
insist on the language of two of my amendments contained in the House-
passed version. The first guided the discretion of the jury in 
returning a death penalty finding and was adopted in a record vote by a 
clear majority of the House of Representatives. The second, easily 
adopted by the Judiciary Committee, dealt with the determination by the 
appeals court as to the existence of adequate aggravating factors to 
justify a jury's death penalty finding:

       Mr. Gekas of Pennsylvania moves that the managers on the 
     part of the House, at the conference on the disagreeing votes 
     of the two Houses on the bill H.R. 3355, be instructed to 
     insist upon the House passed language regarding ``Return of a 
     Finding Concerning a Sentence of Death'' contained in section 
     3593(e) of title VII and ``Review of a Sentence of Death'' 
     contained in Section 3595 of such title.

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