Joe Lieberman: “As I look back on our work together on this bill, S. 4, I am pleased to say that we worked with the same spirit of…”

“As I look back on our work together on this bill, S. 4, I am pleased to say that we worked with the same spirit of cooperation that we did under her chairmanship in 2004 when we had our first legislative response to the 9/11 Commission and we adopted the Intelligence Reform and Terrorist Prevention Act of 2004. This bill will strengthen our ability not just to respond to terrorist attacks but also to prepare our Federal, State, and local governments to respond to natural disasters. In that sense, S. 4 is not only a response to finish the mission given us by the 9/11 Commission that learns from the lessons of the first months of implementation of that Commission report, but it also applies to lessons learned from Hurricane Katrina.”