Honorable Benjamin Gilman
United States Representative, New York, Republican
Representative Gilman, of the Twentieth District of New York, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1972. He served in the New York General Assembly from 1966 to 1972. He is a member of the Government Reform and Oversight Committee and chairs the International Relations Committee. The following is from the June 29, 2000, House floor debate on the conference report on H.R. 4425, the Military Construction Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2001.I compliment all those who worked so hard to bring this military construction bill, which contains an emergency antidrug aid package, to the floor today….