[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 17]
[House]
[Page 21923]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




            PROVIDING PROPER OVERSIGHT OF THE ADMINISTRATION

  (Ms. WATSON asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. WATSON. Madam Speaker, since the beginning of the war in Iraq, 
congressional Republicans have refused to provide any oversight of the 
Bush administration in its handling of the war.
  When no weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq, House 
Republicans refused to investigate how the intelligence could have been 
so bad.
  When the administration sent our troops into combat without the 
proper body armor, House Republicans refused to hold anyone in the 
administration accountable.
  When milestone after milestone passed without things getting better 
in Iraq, congressional Republicans refused to hold oversight hearings 
and allowed the Bush administration to continue with the status quo 
when a change was clearly needed.
  Today, our Nation desperately needs for Congress to do its job and 
provide real oversight of the administration. When Democrats take 
control of Congress in January, we vow to provide proper oversight of 
the actions of this administration. It is something that is required of 
us all by the U.S. Constitution

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