[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 11392]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    RECOUPING MONEY STOLEN BY ENRON

  (Mr. INSLEE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. INSLEE. Mr. Speaker, it is high time for the Bush administration 
to take action to recoup the hundreds of millions of dollars that the 
Enron energy trading racket stole from people in the State of 
Washington.
  We have now heard the tapes, the smoking guns, where energy traders 
talk about ``jamming'' grandmothers in Washington State, saying ``burn, 
baby, burn,'' during the brownouts, just laughing at the fact that they 
got away with hundreds of millions of dollars of theft.
  We are calling on the administration to stop protecting the Enron 
energy trading racket. We will offer on the floor of the House next 
week an amendment to compel the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to 
get off the dime and get our money back from Enron.
  This is a ripoff that is too obvious even for the Bush administration 
to ignore, and it is time for Congress to stand up on our hind legs and 
force this administration to take action. The people in Snohomish 
County deserve their hundreds of millions of dollars back, and we are 
going to see to it that they get it.

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