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Don Nickles: I totally disagree. I am looking at some of the people who are stating their strong support for Dr. John Graham. I will…

On the recordJuly 19, 2001
I totally disagree. I am looking at some of the people who are stating their strong support for Dr. John Graham. I will just mention a couple, and I will include for the Record a couple of their statements. One is former EPA Administrator William Reilly. No one would ever call him extreme. He said that John Graham has "impressed me with his rigor, fairmindedness and integrity." Dr. Lewis Sullivan, former Secretary of Health and Human Services, said "Dr. Graham is superbly qualified to be the OIRA administrator." Former administrators from both Democrat and Republican administrations conveyed their confidence that John Graham "is not an 'opponent' of all regulation but rather is deeply committed to seeing that regulation serves broad public purposes as effectively as possible." They said he is superbly qualified.
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Don Nickles
Oklahoma

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Defending Dr. John Graham's qualifications for the OIRA administrator position during Senate debate.

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