Daniel Glickman

Tomorrow the country buries Richard Nixon, the President who will be remembered both for his far-sighted foreign policy and his disastrous involvement in the Watergate scandal. Today I wish to talk for a few minutes about our country's…

Virtually every State legislature in the world has significant restrictions on gifts. The public believes on occasion we do in fact take favors, and I think this is a good first step to establish some principles that were honest and true…

I rise in support of this rule and this bill. I am a bit amused listening to my good friend, the gentleman from Texas, the secretary of the Republican conference. On the one hand, he and others argue that the bill is not tough enough…

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…

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…

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 rise today to alert my colleagues to a bill I have been working on for many years, a bill which deals with liability problems affecting small airplane manufacturers. I know that many of my colleagues are familiar with this legislation…

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.

I rise in support of this bill. Mr. Chairman, my constituents often tell me that they think it is important for Congress and the Government in general to improve its image, to look like we are acting like the rest of the people, to not…

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…