[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 15]
[House]
[Page 20346]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




     CALLING FOR INDEPENDENT COMMISSION REGARDING HURRICANE KATRINA

  (Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas. Mr. Speaker, the House today is going to 
vote to create a special congressional committee on preparedness and 
response to Hurricane Katrina. My question is, why do we need a special 
committee? That is our job, anyway. We have a lot of committees in the 
House that are supposed to be doing that every day all year.
  What we need to do is see what happened. Let us have an independent 
commission to check both the executive branch's response and also the 
congressional branch. We need somebody to come from the outside and 
check both our test and our homework. Let us not have a sham or a 
whitewash.

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