Bill McCollum
Bill McCollum
Ira William "Bill" McCollum Jr.is an American politician and member of the Republican Party. He was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1981 to 2001, representing Florida's 5th congressional district, which was later redistricted to the 8th congressional district in 1993. As a member of the House, McCollum rose to become Vice Chairman of the House Republican Conference, the fifth-highest ranking position in the House Republican leadership. He voted to impeach President Bill Clinton and subsequently...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth12 July 1944
CountryUnited States of America
I don't think there's any question that someday somebody who is innocent will be executed in this country again.
I don’t believe in involving the government in enforcing or encouraging the lifestyle of gays and homosexuals.
We demand privacy, yet we glorify those that break into computers.
A trial without witnesses, when it involves a criminal accusation, a criminal matter, is not a true trial.
I respect a system that says we're going to put every bit of pressure on anybody we have to put it on to get to the drug dealer who is bringing his poison into the country.
There are a lot of messages that need to be sent to the criminal who is out there dealing in this on the streets of the United States. We need to send the message of swiftness and certain punishment.
It takes a lot of nerve to bang your fist and demand tougher juvenile gun laws while doing nothing to enforce the ones that already exist. I must point out that doubling the size of the criminal code will not matter if the Clinton-Gore administration refuses to vigorously enforce these laws.
The health care reform legislation passed by the U.S. House of Representatives last night clearly violates the U.S. Constitution and infringes on each state's sovereignty.
You can't expect law enforcement to provide the solution to the drug problem.
[A new all-encompassing national identification system] contradicts some of our most sacrosanct American principles of personal liberty and expectations of privacy and is far in excess of what is needed to provide us with the security and protections we all want.