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Tom Harkin: The Senate finds that-- (1) all Americans are united in condemning, in the strongest possible terms, the terrorists who…

On the recordSeptember 13, 2001
The Senate finds that-- (1) all Americans are united in condemning, in the strongest possible terms, the terrorists who planned and carried out the September 11, 2001 attacks against the United States as well as their sponsors, and in pursuing all of those responsible until they are brought to justice and punished; (2) the Arab American and American Muslim communities, are a vital part of our nation; (3) the prayer of Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, the Archbishop of Washington in a Mass on September 12, 2001 for our Nation and the victims in the immediate aftermath of the terrorist hijackings and attacks in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania reminds all Americans that 'we must seek the guilty and not strike out against the innocent or we become like them who are without moral guidance or direction.'; (4) the heads of state of several Arab and predominantly Moslem countries have condemned the terrorist attacks in the U.S.…
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Tom Harkin
Democratic · Iowa

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Introducing an amendment expressing the Senate's stance on discrimination against Arab Americans after the September 11 attacks.

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