[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12792]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   STRONG LEADERSHIP OF THE PRESIDENT

  (Mr. DREIER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DREIER. Mr. Speaker, I rise to congratulate President Bush on the 
very bold speech that he made on Wall Street the other day 
demonstrating his outrage over the kind of business that we have seen 
within a number of corporations. I know many people are talking about 
these scandals; my colleague from Texas just mentioned it. I think that 
if we look at the way President Bush has responded, there are a number 
of issues on which he states his very strong feelings.
  There is nothing about which he feels more strongly than the fact in 
a capitalist system which is one of the greatest aspects of the United 
States of America, honesty and ethics are a priority and they are to be 
expected. And that is why I believe that the legislation which we have 
moved from this House and we hope we will be able to see legislation 
emerge from the Senate so that we can bring about a bipartisan 
compromise to deal with accounting reform that will not in any way 
jeopardize the free market system which is so important to us will 
succeed. I congratulate President Bush for the very strong leadership 
he has shown on this issue.

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