[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 4]
[Senate]
[Page 4286]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




 REPUBLICAN RUBBER-STAMP CONGRESS REFUSES TO HOLD BUSH ACCOUNTABLE FOR 
                                KATRINA

  (Ms. WATSON asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. WATSON. Mr. Speaker, gulf coast residents continue to pay the 
price for the Bush administration's incompetence, cronyism and failed 
leadership. Yet, House Republicans refuse to ask the tough questions of 
an administration that showed no competence during Hurricane Katrina.
  The House Republican Davis report on the Katrina response is woefully 
incomplete. The White House was allowed to ignore congressional 
subpoenas, and Michael Brown's e-mails were excluded. How is that a 
proper investigation? Worse yet, Republicans hold no one in the Bush 
administration accountable.
  Americans cannot afford to gamble their security on the same Bush 
administration team that mismanaged Katrina. The American people 
deserve a bipartisan independent Katrina commission, like the 9/11 
Commission, to get all the answers we need to better prepare for future 
natural and terrorist disasters.
  Hurricane Katrina should have served as a wake-up call to House 
Republicans about the critical need for congressional oversight. 
Unfortunately, they refuse to ask the tough questions.

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