Entries for March 16, 2007

That's a question raised by this column in the New York Post by Rep. Gregory Meeks. Meeks is a Democrat who represents the Sixth Congressional District of New York–essentially, southeastern Queens. The district's population in 2000 was 52 percent black and 9 percent Asian; it voted 87 to 10 percent for Al Gore in 2000 and 84 to 15 percent for John Kerry in 2004. Meeks, as you might expect, has a voting record well to the left in the House–though not as far left as some members. Yet he supports a relaxation of the audit requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

In response to my U.S. News column this week, Sandy Berger has sent me the following E-mail. I'm presenting it as written, with typos corrected, with his permission. I've had my say; let him have his say.