Bill Clinton: “A point of clarification, Mr. President. I believe the amendment builds on the World Trade Center monitoring program…”

“A point of clarification, Mr. President. I believe the amendment builds on the World Trade Center monitoring program which did go through Homeland Security. That may not be the best way to proceed in the future, but that is an existing structure. I absolutely agree with the Senator from Maine that the Voinovich bill will give us an opportunity to avoid these problems in the future, which has to be one of our primary goals. I thank the Chair.”