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Timothy Roemer: “If my children were to receive this report card, they would have to repeat a grade. We can't afford to repeat the…”

On the recordDecember 4, 2005
If my children were to receive this report card, they would have to repeat a grade. We can't afford to repeat the lessons of 9/11 and the losses of 9/11.

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Roemer emphasizes the seriousness of the failures in response to the 9/11 Commission's report card.

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