Gilbert Gutknecht: “This is part of the frustration, the list that the gentleman just went through. I suspect most Americans, particularly…”

“This is part of the frustration, the list that the gentleman just went through. I suspect most Americans, particularly American women, do not know how much this Congress has really done. It is so frustrating because it seems to me--and I do not mean to be critical of the press but maybe I guess I am--these are the kinds of things that need to be reported more, and frankly too many Americans do not know how much this Congress has accomplished. But, again, I am proud of the 104th Congress. This has been a can-do Congress from the very first day. The gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. Fox] remembers as I do that very first day, and the gentleman from Louisiana [Mr. Tauzin] was on the other side of the aisle that day, but it is great to have him with us now. But the point is that from the very first day, we were enacting reforms which a lot of people, and I am sure the gentleman from Louisiana [Mr. Tauzin] included, had been trying to get reformed here in this Congress for many, many years. The very first bill, H.R. 1, the Congressional Accountability Act, the Shays Act, to make Congress abide by the same laws as everybody else. We actually for the first time in I do not know how many years had an audit of the Congress, and frankly what the auditors found was, this Congress itself has not been very good at managing its own funds and has not been very accountable for its own funds.”