As I listen to talk surrounding the President’s upcoming State of the Union address tonight I wonder if the President will make any reference to Enron and corporate governance issues more generally.

I did a bit of checking and discovered that the State of the Union addresses in 2002 and 2003 both included a reference (albeit limited) to the corporate governance scandals. The reference in 2003 was both more prominent and more strident, referring to a need to insist on integrity within the business community and to hold “corporate criminals” accountable. However, since then such issues have received little, if any, attention in the State of the Union address. In fact, the President only dedicated a couple of words to the issues in his 2005 State of the Union address. So I was interested to know, as we all debate the impact of the Enron trial on corporate governance and the issue of corporate accountability, will the President feel obliged to acknowledge both the issue and the trial?

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