John Yarmuth: “I want to yield again to my colleague from Wisconsin, but one of the things that intrigued me earlier was the notion…”

“I want to yield again to my colleague from Wisconsin, but one of the things that intrigued me earlier was the notion that somehow we were not interested in security, that we were not interested in fighting the most effective fight that we could against 9/11, and that we were playing politics with the security of this country. That seems to me to be kind of standard rhetoric when we are talking about these matters, when in fact we tend not to deal with what is in the actual law, what the facts of the situation are. I would like to yield again to my colleague from Wisconsin. We have been joined by another distinguished colleague, Mr. Perlmutter, from Colorado. I would like you all to engage in a colloquy about the issue of politics and just who might be playing politics with a very important matter of national security.”