Senate, 94-6, Backs Ethics Panel Subpoena for Packwood's Diaries

The Washington Post | November 3, 1993| | Copyright

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.

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