Rob Andrews: “there is no division in this House, or I believe in this country today, over the question of whether we want to fully…”

“there is no division in this House, or I believe in this country today, over the question of whether we want to fully and vigorously support the war on terrorism. I join what I would believe to be a near unanimous or unanimous body in this House in favor of providing the funds to get that done. There is a division within this House over the question of accountability. The lack of accountability is one of the real sad phenomena in American culture right now. It is even more sad that what we are doing in the House today is a continuation of that culture that says that it is okay not to be accountable. The great political scandals of our time at State and Federal and local levels for both Republicans and Democrats are usually about the failure of elected officials to be held accountable. We had a debate on this House floor within the last 2 weeks about holding welfare recipients accountable when they receive public funds, as I believe we should. There has been discussion in every corner of America about the lack of accountability of the executives of the Enron Corporation seemingly being able to take vast amounts of money from their shareholders, from their employees, from their pension funds, but not be held accountable. The division between us today is about accountability on the question of raising the national debt, on the question of borrowing $750 billion to run the government.”