Bill Delahunt: “Well, Mr. Speaker, again, I guess my frustration, if the gentleman will continue to yield, is that in the aftermath of…”

“Well, Mr. Speaker, again, I guess my frustration, if the gentleman will continue to yield, is that in the aftermath of our national tragedy, if this proposal, and I presume it was put forward sometime from September of 2001, several months thereafter, if it had been acted on in good faith, with full cooperation from the White House, with the support of both parties in this House and in the Senate, we very well might have had the exact same report that we now have, that was presented to the American people just recently, months if not years ago so that we could have been in a position in the distant past to have acted in a responsible, thoughtful way to adopt those limitations that passed through the legislative process. Where would we have been?”