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Article: Senate, 94-6, Backs Ethics Panel Subpoena for Packwood's Diaries
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- November 3, 1993
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The Senate voted overwhelmingly last night to give its ethics
committee unprecedented authority to go to court to enforce a broad
subpoena for the personal diaries of Sen. Bob Packwood (R-Ore.) as
part of its inquiry into possible sexual misconduct and violations of
criminal law by Packwood.
The Senate approved the committee's subpoena request by a vote of
94 to 6.
At the end of two days of debate, Robert C. Byrd (D-W.Va.), the
Senate's president pro tempore, stunned his colleagues by accusing
Packwood of doing damage to the Senate and saying he should have
resigned.
"None of us is pure or without flaw, but when those flaws damage
the institution of the Senate, it is time to have the grace ...