more than capable to handle any independent counsel report, if one should come.

While an independent counsel can and should pursue a case with vigor, I and many others believe that Mr. Starr has crossed that line into obsession.

The independent counsel had four years to investigate the president. This committee had four months. The White House is now getting two days. There is no question the president's conduct was wrong. But I believe that the legal case against the president is not strong.

I counsel my clients to pull one [report] each quarter.

The bill does nothing to target the one percent of gun dealers who are responsible for selling nearly half of the guns traced to crime, ... It does nothing to plug the NRA-sponsored loopholes that, among other things, allows criminals to get out of jail and get their guns back.

[Fitzgerald's appointment] eliminated the risks of the old independent counsel statute, and it's worked just beautifully, ... It looks like a traditional, responsible, very aggressive but professional prosecutor's work.