Bill Delahunt: “Not a single hearing. Not a single hearing, Madam Speaker. Not one. Can anybody, can any Member, Republican or…”

“Not a single hearing. Not a single hearing, Madam Speaker. Not one. Can anybody, can any Member, Republican or Democratic, please respond and provide an explanation, when there have been reports after reports after reports, indictments, reports from the special Inspector General for Iraq reconstruction. It cries out for investigation. It cries out for oversight, Madam Speaker. You know, when the CPA, the Coalition Provisional Authority, came in, and in the immediate aftermath of the fall of Saddam Hussein, and began to administer as a viceroy, if you will, for the nation of Iraq, there was $8.1 billion left over from the United Nations Oil-for-Food program. There was an audit done subsequently. Not a single penny of that $8 billion plus can be accounted for. That is outrageous. Why haven't we heard from this Congress the need to conduct oversight hearings? If the American people were aware of the requests that have been made continuously to do the kind of work that we were elected to do and is not being done, there would be outrage, Madam Speaker.”