[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 24 (Wednesday, March 1, 2006)]
[House]
[Page H467]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       HALLIBURTON REIMBURSEMENT

  (Ms. McKINNEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Ms. McKINNEY. Mr. Speaker, yesterday the Pentagon announced that it 
is returning $288 out of $300 million it was holding while 
investigating Halliburton for overcharging, even though Halliburton was 
previously caught overcharging the Pentagon by $27 million for meals 
for our troops.
  Mr. Speaker, even as tens of thousands of Hurricane Katrina survivors 
face eviction due to FEMA, the United States Government is handing 
hundreds of millions of dollars to a company which has been plagued by 
allegations and admissions of fraud, waste, abuse, bribery and 
kickbacks.
  The Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq was itself unable to 
account for $9 billion, with over a billion of this reportedly having 
been lost to Halliburton.
  Today, I urge Congress to establish a permanent war profiteering 
committee modeled after the Truman Commission after the Second World 
War.
  Before this Congress writes the President another blank check, we 
need to investigate the gross incompetence and even corruption that 
exists with this administration.

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