Political Quotes

“I rise to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the final report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, also known as the 9/11 Commission Report. As the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee--a committee on which I proudly serve with the Presiding Officer--I can tell my colleagues that this report has been and continues to be incredibly important to the work we do in the committee that Dr. Coburn and I are privileged to lead in this Congress. Nearly 13 years ago, as we will recall, our Nation suffered the most devastating attack on U.S. soil since Pearl Harbor. Almost every American alive will remember where they were on the day the Twin Towers collapsed, when the Pentagon was hit, and when they saw the wreckage in the fields of Shanksville, PA. We asked ourselves at that time, Why would anybody want to do this? How did this happen? What could have been done to prevent this tragedy? In the months after this horrific attack, Congress and the President endeavored to answer these questions. Together they established an entity we call the 9/11 Commission. Led by former New Jersey Gov.…”