On the recordJuly 24, 2007
Say that again, will you please, Senator. I want the people of America to hear what you just said. The point is very simple. There is an urgency in this appropriations subcommittee bill that I think is beyond the importance of other bills. Why? Because we have been told in recent weeks there is a gut feeling on the part of the person who heads our Homeland Security Agency that we may be attacked again. We have been told by the National Intelligence Estimate that the al-Qaida organization has reconstituted and regenerated itself and is the most serious threat to attack the homeland of the United States of America. If that is the case, and we have been warned--let me describe, again, the August 2001 Presidential daily briefing was headlined this: ``Bin Laden Determined to Strike in the U.S.'' That is what the President received in August of 2001.
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govinfo.gov
