Joe Lieberman: “let me sum up. This amendment poses the question, Are we really going to do what the 9/11 Commission asked us to do…”

“let me sum up. This amendment poses the question, Are we really going to do what the 9/11 Commission asked us to do, which is to create a committee to oversee the Department of Homeland Security? That is what it is all about. We reorganized the Federal Government executive branch to better protect our homeland security. The Commission says we have to reorganize our oversight to be able to protect our homeland security. That is what the proposal of the Commission is all about. We are getting to a point, as we begin to take all these pieces out, where it is a sham, as I have said before. What we are calling a homeland security committee is not really. It is as if you had a cat, and you put a little necklace around its neck with a sign that said, ``I am a horse,'' and expected people to think the cat was a horse. We are at a point now where we are calling this committee the homeland security committee, and it is not.”