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Original Source: Political Transcript Wire
REPRESENTATIVES PELOSI AND WAXMAN HOLD A NEWS CONFERENCE ON LEGISLATION TO CREATE AN ANTI-FRAUD COMMISSION
SEPTEMBER 20, 2005
SPEAKERS: U.S. REPRESENTATIVE NANCY PELOSI (D-CA), HOUSE MINORITY LEADER
U.S. REPRESENTATIVE HENRY WAXMAN (D-CA)
[*] PELOSI: Good afternoon. I'm pleased to be here with our really exceptional colleague. I say "our" because I know I speak for every member of the House, our exceptional colleague, Congressman Henry Waxman, our government spending watchdog.
In the week since Hurricane Katrina ravaged our Gulf Coast, Democrats have been calling for accountability. We have asked the Republican leadership to give the American people and independent and truly bipartisan inquiry as to what went wrong in the response to Hurricane Katrina.