[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 116 (Tuesday, July 18, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H7081]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                             AUDIT RESULTS

  (Mrs. SEASTRAND asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. SEASTRAND. Mr. Speaker, business men and women across America 
know the first thing you do when you acquire a new enterprise is to 
audit the books. Last November the American people took back the House 
of Representatives from the liberals who had controlled it absolutely 
for 40 years. When the new American majority assumed responsibility for 
this institution last January, we took the practical, prudent step of 
authorizing a complete audit of the House of Representatives.
  Today, the results of that first-ever audit are being made public. It 
will come as no surprise to the American people that the independent 
audit by Price Waterhouse has proven once again that power corrupts and 
absolute power corrupts absolutely.
  Competence, waste, expediency, mismanagement, confusion, 
contradiction, living above the law, no accountability, no security, 
these are among the findings of the auditors being reported today.
  The bottom line is inescapable and undeniable. This House, this 
cherished institution designed by our constitutional forefathers of 
this great Nation is once again going to be a people's House because we 
are going to clean it up.


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