accountability and the rule of law, now and in the future

Madam Speaker, as one of your constituents in San Francisco, I have supported you at the polls for many years, and was proud when you became Speaker of the House.

Could you please restore our hope in the rule of law, and give us a sense of how the Democratic Congress will act to hold criminals in the Bush administration accountable for their illegal acts? With the judicial and executive branches of government ignoring their duty to the constitution--or worse, furthering the lawless "unitary executive"--we the people are counting on Congress to defend the Republic.