Christopher Shays: “I ultimately believe this should be a commission of people outside Congress and outside working for the administration.…”

“I ultimately believe this should be a commission of people outside Congress and outside working for the administration. It needs to be people totally independent; people like a Sam Nunn or a Warren Rudman, or some others of that status. There should not be so many from the Speaker or the minority leader. We should not be saying these are our people and the other side of the aisle's people. I believe the victims, the families of September 11, are ultimately going to get a commission because they deserve it, and so do the American people. I salute my colleague for bringing this forward, but it is not the kind of commission that I would hope we would have.”