Political Quotes

“today, I was very proud to introduce with my colleague Senator Menendez, who is leading this effort, and Senator Cornyn, Senator Grassley the September 11 Transparency Act. Members of this body have heard me talk about this issue before. It has been a repeated issue for me but for this body as well. We passed JASTA because we wanted the 9/11 families to have access to the courts and have their fair day in court. We passed the resolution in 2018 to require that the government declassify, to the maximum extent possible, all of the information surrounding 9/11. JASTA was passed over President Obama's veto. His veto was overridden on a bipartisan basis. The resolution demanding more declassification was passed with overwhelming bipartisan support and signed by the President. The letters that we have written, the questions that I posed in hearings, the press conferences held, the constant effort to provide documents and information to those families so they can have their fair day in court has been a continuing and constant one and, so far, completely unavailable. Administration after administration--Obama, Trump, and hopefully not but apparently Biden--have resisted these calls for declassifying and disclosure. That information is evidence that those families need to seek justice in their effort to hold accountable the Government of Saudi Arabia for its alleged complicity, its aiding and abetting, its support for the 9/ 11 attack.…”