[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 155 (Friday, December 15, 2000)]
[Senate]
[Pages S11895-S11896]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    RECOMMENDATION OF GLENN A. FINE

  Mr. KOHL. Mr. President, I want to voice my support today for Glenn 
Fine, who would truly be an outstanding Inspector General at the 
Department of Justice. As you know, the Inspector General is charged 
with investigating waste, fraud, abuse and corruption. As such, it is a 
position of critical importance that we should have filled before 
adjourning for the year to ensure accountable and effective oversight 
of the DOJ.
  Mr. Fine has been dealing with corruption ever since the Harvard-
Boston

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College basketball game on December 16, 1978, in which he scored 19 
points and had 14 assists--perhaps his best performance in college--
only to discover later that this particular game was part of a 
notorious point-shaving scandal. No doubt this first-hand experience 
drove him in his later quest to weed out corruption at the Department 
of Justice.
  More seriously, though, Mr. Fine has served in a variety of 
professional roles and always in an exemplary fashion. He is currently 
the Director of the Special Investigations and Review Unit in the 
Department of Justice's Office of the Inspector General, where he has 
supervised a variety of sensitive internal investigations, including 
the FBI's handling of the Aldrich Ames case. He also worked as an 
Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, where he 
prosecuted more than 35 criminal jury trials. His academic credentials 
are stellar as well. He is a Rhodes Scholar and he was graduated magna 
cum laude from Harvard Law School. Finally, though this is a political 
appointment, Mr. Fine is non-partisan--exactly the type of appointee 
that a Republican President might very well consider keeping on. He 
worked as an Assistant U.S. Attorney during the Reagan and Bush 
administrations, and has never been involved in a political campaign.
  As this session of Congress comes to a close, a position as important 
as the Inspector General should have been filled. I'm only sorry that 
an individual as outstanding as Mr. Fine was not confirmed.

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