Mr. Shelby said that several of his employees had ties to former and current Enron workers, some of whom could be witnesses in the case.

"And I think those employees," she said about Enron workers, "were entitled to the same thing."

Later in the day, he left for Washington with a busload of Enron workers to focus attention on their plight.

New details also emerged today concerning Enron workers' losses in their 401(k) plans.

In Houston, the contrast between health care and other, hard-hit industries is readily apparent at a jobs fair attended by about 4,000 laid-off Enron workers.

There they critiqued the testimony and casually promoted their Web sites for former Enron workers.

A lawsuit filed by Enron workers asserts that 15,000 workers lost a total of $1 billion of their retirement savings.

The Enron workers rolled their eyes, as if such chases occur routinely.

When the company filed for bankruptcy in December 2001, many Enron workers saw their life savings vanish while other investors lost hundreds of millions of dollars.

The Auditors The company's management was not alone in betraying Enron workers and the millions of other investors, who lost $60 billion.