Daniel Glickman

I think that the leadership on the subcommittee, the gentleman from Texas [Mr. Bryant] particularly, but also the gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. Gekas] and other Republicans, were very constructive in trying to work this out as well as…

First of all, I compliment the gentleman from New York. He at least comes up with something that makes real proposals. I disagree with most of them, but there is at least some intellectual honesty in here. The problem with his proposals is…

I would like to ask the gentleman, what he is saying is, he cut out all farm programs affecting wheat, corn, rice, cotton, tobacco, everything. For whatever reason, we leave dairy alone in this program, and the dairy program also on…

The independence of the Committee on the Judiciary in my judgment would be threatened by a mandatory independent counsel law, and I think it should be pointed out that the Justice Department has had no trouble investigating and indicting…

It mandates that an independent counsel be appointed under circumstances where misconduct is alleged, takes away the power of the Justice Department and the criminal justice process to use other means like, for example, a grand jury…

And in fact virtually every Attorney General, Republican and Democrat, are very opposed to the provisions of the amendment that the gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. Gekas] is seeking which mandates that an independent counsel be appointed.