[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 11418]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   ENRON TRADERS PLOT MARKET RIGGING

  (Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I happen to represent a great 
and wonderful community, Houston, Texas. But in that community is a 
company called Enron. And I watched during the 2 or 3 years past when 
5,000 employees were laid off, through no fault of their own, and 
through some of the crumbling and outrageous behavior of some of those 
now before the justice system.
  But I come to condemn the outrageous comments made by Enron employees 
that really have no place in any part of corporate America.
  As the words go: ``So the rumor is true that they are taking all of 
the `blank' money back from you guys; all that money you stole from 
those poor grandmothers in California?''
  Response: ``Yeah, Grandma Millie, man, she's the one who could not 
figure out how to `blank' vote on the butterfly ballot.''
  Trader: ``Now she wants her `blank' money back for all the power you 
jammed up her `blank' for $250 megawatts an hour.''
  Let me ask corporate America to establish a code of conduct. This is 
outrageous. This should be condemned, and I hope they get their due 
justice. This does not reflect hard-working employees who every day get 
up and try to do their job.

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