Summary

SEN DAVID DURENBERGER, R-MN, TODAY BEGAN TRIAL-LIKE HEARINGS BEFORE THE SENATE ETHICS COMMITTEE ON ALLEGATIONS OF FINANCIAL MISDEEDS THE ACCUSATIONS INCLUDE EVADING LIMITS ON SPEAKING FEES AND FAILURE TO FULLY DISCLOSE FINANCIAL REIMBURSEMENTS FROM OUTSIDE GROUPS DURENBERGER HAS ACKNOWLEDGED “LAPSES IN JUDGEMENT”, BUT DENIES INTENTIONAL WRONGDOING IN 1981, THE LAST TIME THE ETHICS COMMITTEE HELD HEARINGS, IT RECOMMENDED EXPULSION FOR THEN-SENATOR HARRISON WILLIAMS, D-NJ, AFTER HE WAS CONVICTED OF BRIBERY IN THE ABSCAM CASE HE RESIGNED FIRST MCKEE WILL ALSO TALK ABOUT THE PROBLEMS THE SENATE HAS BEEN HAVING AND HOW WITH THE DURENBERGER CASE, THEY WANT TO SHOW THEY CAN TAKE CARE OF THEIR OWN

Source CONUS Archive
Record ID 111587
Story Slug DAVE DURENBERGER HEARINGS
Location WASHINGTON, DC
Format PKG/NAT
Date 06/12/1990
Archive Time 23:53
TRT 3:09
Supers PKG AND NAT SOT CAPITOL HILL SEN WARREN RUDMAN, R-NH, ETHICS COMMITTEE CO-CHAIR NORMAN ORNSTEIN, AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE SEN DAVID DURENBERGER, R-MN MIKE MCKEE REPORTING VO/SOT: WASHINGTON DC SEN HOWELL HEFLIN, D-AL ROBERT BENNETT, INDEPENDENT COUNSEL TO THE SENATE ETHICS COMMITTEE
Video Description PKG: SHOTS FROM DURENBERGER HEARING, DURENBERGER LISTENING, GRAPHIC, SOT, GRAPHIC, DURENBERGER SOT
Description SEN DAVID DURENBERGER, R-MN, TODAY BEGAN TRIAL-LIKE HEARINGS BEFORE THE SENATE ETHICS COMMITTEE ON ALLEGATIONS OF FINANCIAL MISDEEDS THE ACCUSATIONS INCLUDE EVADING LIMITS ON SPEAKING FEES AND FAILURE TO FULLY DISCLOSE FINANCIAL REIMBURSEMENTS FROM OUTSIDE GROUPS DURENBERGER HAS ACKNOWLEDGED “LAPSES IN JUDGEMENT”, BUT DENIES INTENTIONAL WRONGDOING IN 1981, THE LAST TIME THE ETHICS COMMITTEE HELD HEARINGS, IT RECOMMENDED EXPULSION FOR THEN-SENATOR HARRISON WILLIAMS, D-NJ, AFTER HE WAS CONVICTED OF BRIBERY IN THE ABSCAM CASE HE RESIGNED FIRST MCKEE WILL ALSO TALK ABOUT THE PROBLEMS THE SENATE HAS BEEN HAVING AND HOW WITH THE DURENBERGER CASE, THEY WANT TO SHOW THEY CAN TAKE CARE OF THEIR OWN
Script LEAD: FOR THE FIRST TIME IN ALMOST A DECADE THE SENATE FINDS ITSELF AIRING ITS DIRTY LAUNDRY IN PUBLIC AS THE ETHICS COMMITTEE EXAMINES THE FINANCES OF DAVID DURENBERGER AS MIKE MCKEE REPORTS, ITS ONLY THE BEGINNING OF
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