Thomas Daschle: “I don't know if there are many Congresses that have spent more time investigating than this one has. This Congress has…”

“I don't know if there are many Congresses that have spent more time investigating than this one has. This Congress has probably spent more money and more time investigating than any since the early 1970s. And as the Senator from Connecticut so appropriately points out, with all that investigation, there can be no question about the need for some reform. Obviously, there is a question about the need for enforcement and follow through after enforcement with regard to what may or may not have happened, the allegations, all of the information raised in these investigations. But then the question comes, What do we do about it? And we have been asking that question ever since the investigations here in the Senate have ended. What do we do about it? How tragic it would be for us to say, ``Look, we have now exposed all of these problems but we choose to do nothing. We choose to ignore the fact that reform is so critical.'' What does that say to the American people? Look, here are the problems. But, look here, we are not going to do anything about them.”