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107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1737

  To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide that witnesses at 
  Federal grand jury proceedings have the right to the assistance of 
                                counsel.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 3, 2001

Mr. Traficant introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide that witnesses at 
  Federal grand jury proceedings have the right to the assistance of 
                                counsel.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That chapter 215 of 
title 18, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) by adding at the end the following:
``Sec. 3323. Right to assistance of counsel
    ``A witness before a grand jury shall have the right to have an 
attorney present in the room where the grand jury is sitting to assist 
that witness while the witness is being questioned.''; and
            (2) by adding at the end of the table of sections at the 
        beginning of such chapter the following new item:

``3323. Right to assistance of counsel.''.
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