Jay Inslee: “The Arthur Andersen accountants are really confused today. For the last several weeks, they have been listening to the…”

“The Arthur Andersen accountants are really confused today. For the last several weeks, they have been listening to the Republican Party trooping in front of the television cameras and calling them irresponsible, reckless and fiscally negligent. The Republican leadership then comes to the floor today and proposes a bill that will blow a trillion dollar hole in Social Security below the water line, ensure deficits for decades; and they call the Arthur Andersen accountants irresponsible? Mr. Speaker, the Republican leadership is on a course to do to Social Security and Medicare and fiscal responsibility what Ken Lay and Arthur Andersen did with Enron. We ought to reject it.”