[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 35 (Tuesday, March 18, 1997)]
[Senate]
[Page S2411]
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  RELATIVE TO THE DECISION OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL ON THE INDEPENDENT 
                            COUNSEL PROCESS

  Mr. TORRICELLI. Mr. President, pursuant to the unanimous consent 
agreement, on behalf of Senators Leahy and Levin, I call up Joint 
Resolution 23.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report.
  The assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       A joint resolution (S.J. Res. 23) expressing the sense of 
     the Congress that the Attorney General should exercise her 
     best professional judgment, without regard to political 
     pressures, on whether to invoke the independent counsel 
     process to investigate alleged criminal misconduct relating 
     to any election campaign.

  The Senate proceeded to consider the joint resolution.
  Mr. TORRICELLI. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that all time 
for debate on the joint resolution be yielded back.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  Ms. MOSELEY-BRAUN addressed the Chair.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Illinois.
  Ms. MOSELEY-BRAUN. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to speak as 
in morning business.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  Ms. MOSELEY-BRAUN. I thank the Chair.
  (The remarks of Ms. Moseley-Braun pertaining to the introduction of 
S. 456 are located in today's Record under ``Statements on Introduced 
Bills and Joint Resolutions.'')

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