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THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. This week, the federal government took decisive action against corporate fraud and abuse. The Justice Department arrested several executives who used a public company as a personal loan agency, while hiding their actions from investors and employees. Additional investigations coordinated by our corporate fraud task force are underway across the country. It should be clear to every shareholder, investor and employee in America that this administration will investigate, arrest and prosecute corporate executives who break the law. During the last several months, I've called on Congress to pass strong reforms to hold corporate officers accountable for...

Ex-president Bill Clinton was flat-out wrong on Wednesday when he blamed Republicans for blocking his attempts to implement corporate reforms that might have prevented the recent stock market slide, his former top political advisor Dick Morris tells NewsMax.com exclusively. While touring the site of his presidential library in Little Rock, Ark., Clinton told the New York Times, "Arthur Levitt, my Securities and Exchange commissioner, tried to stop the Enron accounting issues — using the same accounting company being consultant and accountant — and the Republicans stopped it." Later Clinton tried to claim that Republicans had fought Mr. Levitt's effort, "and...

What distinguishes our country from the majority of the world? It's not complicated. We celebrate and cherish liberty and freedom, and that includes free speech and free enterprise. In order for liberty to thrive, there have to be certain rules by which we all play, and that's what the Constitution does. It lays out where the power of the federal government begins and ends. Now folks, it's time we get something straight in this country. When I see the United States Senate vote 97 to zero on a so-called corporate reform bill that has, as its real purpose, the further...