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investigations that apparently, as I remember Delegate

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Gallagher saying, we had not permitted before, and they

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wanted to avoid the kind of thing that happened in Congress

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where witnesses were abused. But this applying to all goverr

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mental units created a completely new right, a right

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my questions to some of the delegates has indicated might

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create some problems.

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Everybody is in favor of fair hearings, and I

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certainly am, but the question really becomes how this

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is operable, whether it would apply as he indicated to a

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Bar Association hearing, whether that would require

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open hearings or closed hearings, or whether a grievance

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committee had to meet in the open.

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There is just no limit to what might be involved

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in a provision like this, and I find it somewhat scary

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for that reason, and I would have to vote against it.

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THE PRESIDENT: The Chair thinks it might be

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desirable to read the entire section as it would read

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when amended. It would read: "No person shall be denied

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the right to fair and just treatment in any investigation

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conducted by the State or by any unit of local government