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just want to know, when they say they speak for a group

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or an association, that they truly do, and for whom

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they speak. I think this is a little bit different

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than the situation in the General Assembly. The

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category of representative witnesses, as we call the

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latter category, those who don't get paid, will be very

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large indeed.

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Then let's get to the question of the persons

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purported to be covered by this regulation. We purport

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to cover every person who is engaged to represent another

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person, association, corporation, et cetera, as set

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forth in Section l(a), who receives compensation for

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those efforts. That category of person must register

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as an agent; whether or not he is just talking to a

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delegate or writing a delegate or what have you. The

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second category, category we have elected to call

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representative witnesses, are those who don't, who are

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not compensated for their efforts in advocating the

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views of others, but who nevertheless advocate the views

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of others.

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There was some feeling on the committee that