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Five years ago the names Enron and Worldcom went from being icons of American corporate success to the poster children for corporate excess and greed. In the wake of these two scandals, where shareholders lost billions of dollars, Congress felt the need to act, or more accurately react, to preserve shareholder confidence in the capital markets.

Mr. Speaker, this last day of February marks the end of Black History Month, the annual celebration commemorating the contributions of African Americans to this great nation.

I thought it fitting, as its Representative, to pay tribute to some of the many great African Americans that hail from the Sixth Congressional District of New York.

There is a concept from the people of West Africa called Sankofa, literally translated it means, “it is not taboo to go back and fetch what you forgot.” Today I want to use the premise of Sankofa and go back to some of the things that have occurred in the recent past with regard to Iraq so that we can learn from those lessons.

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