John Bel Edwards said "despite all of the good efforts, and they have been good efforts, of the gentleman from Alabama (Chairman Callahan), the bottom line is this: despite the tragedy of September 11, this Congress, without passing the Obey amendment today, will have cut funding for the primary programs intended to keep nuclear materials in Russia from getting into the hands of terrorists and killing 2 million innocent men, women, and children here in America. We can do better than that. My hope is with the bipartisan leadership of this House, we will do better. We ought to do better in this bill by passing the Obey amendment. I certainly hope we will do better in conference committee and adequately fund these important programs that our Department of Energy has said should be funded now." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordNovember 28, 2001

despite all of the good efforts, and they have been good efforts, of the gentleman from Alabama (Chairman Callahan), the bottom line is this: despite the tragedy of September 11, this Congress, without passing the Obey amendment today, will have cut funding for the primary programs intended to keep nuclear materials in Russia from getting into the hands of terrorists and killing 2 million innocent men, women, and children here in America. We can do better than that. My hope is with the bipartisan leadership of this House, we will do better. We ought to do better in this bill by passing the Obey amendment. I certainly hope we will do better in conference committee and adequately fund these important programs that our Department of Energy has said should be funded now.

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John Bel Edwards

Democratic · Louisiana

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Editor's note · Context

Addressing funding cuts for nuclear security programs in the wake of September 11 during a House debate.

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