Mike Levin: “we have provided in the supplemental bill which was enacted last year $18 billion in a special fund for the…”

“we have provided in the supplemental bill which was enacted last year $18 billion in a special fund for the reconstruction of Iraq, and created an inspector general, giving that inspector general responsibility for auditing the expenditure of these funds. We appropriated money for that inspector general's activities. It seems to me the Senator from Wisconsin, as he so frequently does, put his finger on a very important accountability issue to make sure the taxpayers' funds are properly spent. This is a huge expenditure of American taxpayers' funds. We have to find a way--and I think the Senator from Wisconsin has identified the path--that we can continue this function in a way to protect the taxpayers' funds. I congratulate the Senator for this amendment, and I ask to be added as a cosponsor.”