Political Quotes

“people say all the time why can't government run more like a business? As I said earlier, no business would tolerate what we are tolerating here with this abdication of Congress' responsibility to keep up with the money. The very least the American people should expect from Congress is for Congress to oversee the money they remove from people involuntarily through taxes. The very least we ought to be able to do is tell them what happened to it. The other part that this resolution addresses is, one, when they can't tell us what happened to the money; two, when the program is identified as high risk, that means it is not working; and three, when the auditors disclaim the audit report. I want to read what the auditors said when they tried to audit the Department of Defense. ``We are unable to give an opinion on the fiscal year 2005 DOD financial statements because of limitations on the scope of our work. Thus, the financial statements may be unreliable. Therefore, we are unable to express and we do not express an opinion on these financial statements.'' That is on the first page of the audit. What they are saying is we don't know whether what you are about to read is true or not. Listen to this from the Department of Energy. ``Audit work performed by the contract auditor identified significant deficiencies in financial management and reporting controls related to the Department's fiscal year 2005 consolidated financial statements.…”