Bill Bennett: “I simply have to respond to the notion that this is an amendment to fire the incumbent general counsel. That is what we…”

“I simply have to respond to the notion that this is an amendment to fire the incumbent general counsel. That is what we were told in the last debate. That assumes that the present general counsel does not enjoy bipartisan support. That assumes that the present general counsel has conducted himself in such a way that he cannot gather the necessary four votes. I have no knowledge that that is indeed the case. But if it is indeed the case, it is a strong argument for saying that the present general counsel probably should not be in his job. If he cannot muster bipartisan support to hold this job, we have a situation where he is obviously supporting one party over the other in order to maintain those three votes. That is the only conclusion that can be drawn from the argument made by the Senator from Wisconsin who claims this is an attempt to fire the incumbent general counsel. There is nothing in here that says this is an attempt to fire the incumbent general counsel. It simply says the incumbent general counsel has to enjoy bipartisan support. And if he is as wonderful and as bipartisan as the Senator from Wisconsin says he is, he has nothing to fear from this amendment.”