Mike Pence: “we find ourselves in a long war on terror. There has been much discussion on Capitol Hill this week and around America…”

“we find ourselves in a long war on terror. There has been much discussion on Capitol Hill this week and around America about blame and about how it is that we ought to inquire and investigate institutional failures. So I rise today, Mr. Speaker, to remind us that our experience with terror in America did not begin on September 11 in Washington and in New York. Rather, it began on February 26, 1993, with the first World Trade Center bombing. Terrorists blew a hole 6 stories deep in an attempt to topple the north tower; Mogadishu, Somalia, 18 American soldiers killed; the Khobar Towers in 1996, a barracks housing U.S. soldiers, 19 servicemen killed; U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, 245 killed; the USS Cole in October of 2000, 17 servicemen killed. We are in a prolonged engagement with terror centered in a single terrorist organization. Let us stand with our intelligence committees as they rightly inquire into the institutional failures that have occurred.”