[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12411]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       MEMBERS RALLYING TOGETHER

  (Mr. FOLEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. FOLEY. Mr. Speaker, one of the beauties of being in Congress 
after September 11 was the Members, Democrats and Republicans, rallying 
together on behalf of this great Nation. It is regrettable what I have 
seen in the last 24 hours, the attack on the President relative to the 
recent corporate scandals.
  If we want to point fingers and lay blame, we will never solve the 
problem for the average investors. We will not stabilize the stock 
market. We will use politics to ruin the economy of this Nation. We can 
work together as Democrats and Republicans to solve the problem or we 
can sit here and point fingers.
  They pat the President on the back relative to the war against 
terrorism, and then they stab him in the back relative to this war 
against corporate waste, fraud and abuse.
  We have a significant problem in America. We need to get to the heart 
of it.
  When the chief executive of this Nation lied to a grand jury, it was 
described as none of our business, that is personal, it does not matter 
if someone lies before the jury as long as it is about their personal 
life. Regrettably, what these CEOs are doing is lying to their 
shareholders. It is equally bad and they should be punished and sent to 
jail.

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