The Senate bill does take a number of meaningful steps forward to strengthen oversight of the accounting industry.

If we want average Americans to continue to view our financial markets as a place where they can entrust their long-term savings, then we need to provide them with reasonable assurance that our system of investor protections is once again…

President Bush has appointed many others from the corporate boardrooms, giving Americans the sense that the foxes are indeed guarding the henhouse.

No wonder the stock market has been plunging since the president gave a tepid speech on Wall Street last week.

I have to tell you that I have never seen a more appalling example of heartless, unfettered corporate greed than that revealed by the recent, widespread accounting scandals.

the Senate bill is still by far the best reform proposal on the table.

more needs to be done.

The House bill is a disaster. It does nothing to enhance auditor independence beyond what the major firms have said they would not oppose.

The truth is this country finds itself in the midst of a corporate crime wave.

It is sham reform that perpetuates the current system of self-regulation.

If the House refuses, then, at the very least, Senators should insist that all conference negotiations are held in public.

we have a responsibility to lead on this issue and send a strong signal to the American people that we're willing to do what's necessary to protect investors.

We have no Indian housing in Delaware. We do have Indians, and they have housing, but it is not what we traditionally think of as Indian housing.

I would like to have you do that in terms of what your current needs are, what additional needs you are going to have when you take on these new responsibilities.

For the benefit of the committee members, by 2004, we could lose about 55 percent of our people through early retirement or regular retirement.

They feel they are being nickeled and dimed in terms of the Agency.

I am very concerned that when the money is allocated that it is actually used for the things that you want it to.

I sincerely believe that your Agency is the right one to handle this initiative.