Press Releases
Brendan Daly/Nadeam Elshami
202-226-7616
10/09/2007
Pelosi: ‘The New Direction Congress is Bringing Much Needed Accountability to Iraq Contracting’
Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued the following statement today after the House passed the War Profiteering Prevention Act by a vote of 375 to 3. The bipartisan legislation cracks down on
“Today’s passage of the War Profiteering Prevention Act makes clear that defrauding the federal government and robbing American taxpayers will not be tolerated and will be severely punished during a time of war.
“The Bush Administration’s non-existent oversight of the more than $50 billion paid to contractors for relief and reconstruction projects in
“Illicit windfalls by politically-connected contractors must end. By making war profiteering a felony subject to 20 years in prison and closing loopholes in the law, the New Direction Congress is bringing much needed accountability to