Apr 30, 2003
I don't think there has been sufficient follow-through since September 11 to ensure that the people we're asking to do the job have the resources to do that.
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April 30, 2003
I think what we need more than anything else is a realistic assessment, a battle plan, if you will, as to what it would take to get our Nation's first responders fully equipped and trained.
— James M. Shannon
I don't think there has been sufficient follow-through since September 11 to ensure that the people we're asking to do the job have the resources to do that.
I'd like to see the creation of an agreed-upon battle plan to bring them up to where we all agree that they need to be.