[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 15251]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           OIL-FOR-FOOD FRAUD

  (Mr. PEARCE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PEARCE. Mr. Speaker, tonight we are going to begin to look at one 
of the most far-reaching scandals that our generation has seen. The 
Oil-for-Food fraud is possibly the largest scandal in the history of 
the United Nations. We have got several speakers who are going to 
address the situation there where the United Nations Security Council 
possibly changed the votes in order to benefit themselves and certainly 
became very close to this scandal of tremendous proportions. Iraqi 
individuals appear to have bribed or coerced members of the U.N. who 
are administering the program.
  Mr. Speaker, it is a shame that this issue is only being addressed by 
one side of the House. I would request that my colleagues on both sides 
begin to talk about the Oil-for-Food scandal, which possibly reached 
$10 billion and certainly affected the U.N. votes as we considered 
going to war with Iraq.

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