[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 14486]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




             CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY AND HOMELAND SECURITY

  (Mr. DOGGETT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. DOGGETT. Mr. Speaker, the misconduct at Enron was apparent as 
this House met not this morning, but at the beginning of the year. Yet, 
as in previous years, the House Republican leadership avoided doing 
anything meaningful about it. Finally today, we have overcome their 
continued obstructionism to take up the Sarbanes-LaFalce bill, the 
first genuine action to stop corporate wrongdoing. How tragic that so 
many investors and so many hard-working employees had to suffer while 
this leadership protected Kenny-boy and its other corporate pals.
  And even as we gather today to take our first action, this same crowd 
that would yield on one reform after another is now trying to misuse 
the Homeland Security bill to offer new ways to protect corporations 
who wrong people in our communities across the country, and even to go 
so far as to authorize government contracts to be issued to politically 
powerful corporations who abandon their American citizenship and leave 
our country. We must prevent this misconduct from happening.

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