Deborah Koff Ross: “We want this administration to be accountable for your tax money, Mr. Speaker, that is being spent in Iraq, number one.…”

“We want this administration to be accountable for your tax money, Mr. Speaker, that is being spent in Iraq, number one. Number two, we want a Truman-like commission to put an end to war profiteering in Iraq. And, finally, we want this administration to stop playing games and asking for emergency supplementals to hide the true cost of the war and ask for the money the way that all other funds are appropriated by this Congress, through the normal process. One hundred point four billion dollars was the cost for 2006. Over $400 billion has been spent since this war began. That is $8.4 billion a month. That is $275 million a day, and that is nearly $12 million an hour of your tax money, Mr. Speaker, and the tax money of every hardworking man and woman in this country; and it is time to restore commonsense, fiscal discipline and accountability to our government. That is one way, Mr. Speaker, that we believe we can honor our men and women in uniform.”