Numerous questions weigh heavily on the U.S. Department of Agriculture and its constituents these days, including whether its roughly $1.3 billion in research funding will survive the promised cuts in the Republican "Contract with America" (R. Twombly, The Scientist, Jan. 9, 1995, page 1). One, however, was recently answered: the identity of President Bill Clinton's choice to replace agriculture secretary Mike Espy, who resigned under pressure last October. Clinton nominated former Kansas Democratic Congressman, Dan Glickman, who lost his seat in the last election. Glickman who served nine terms in the House, was on the Agriculture Committee and is generally regarded as having solid agriculture legislation experience, including initiatives involving research. A news release by the National Association for Biomedical Research, however, reminds its members that Glickman voted in committee against the Animal Enterprise Protection Act of 1992, which provides federal legal protection to labs that use animals in research.
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