For Immediate Release:

Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Senator Murray holds up the report she requested from the Inspector General at the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Murray's floor remarks:

"Unfortunately, this pattern and practice of political favoritism within the Administration extends beyond Iraq to how the Bush Administration handles government contracts here at home."

"Last week, we got new evidence that a member of President's cabinet has made a series of statements that highlighted the importance of politics in awarding government contracts in his agency. In May, I asked the Inspector General at HUD to look into Secretary Alphonso Jackson’s public statements that he deliberately denied a contract to a firm that had been critical of President Bush."

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