On the recordDecember 7, 2005
I think we are coming back for another hour, so we will get him on the other side here. I will just make this statement and ask for his comment. We have been at war for almost 3 years. It will be 3 years this March. We have not had a single oversight hearing on Iraq in the committees that I serve on, including the House International Relations Committee. Not one. {time} 2100 There are so many questions that the American people have. There are so many questions that we all have, and yet, I would submit that we are not exercising our constitutional mandate to serve as a check and balance on the executive branch. I mean, we do have these allegations of an order of magnitude of corruption that is ongoing in Iraq today. Let me just quote you from the Washington Times, not a liberal journal. I think you will grant me that.
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