Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, the legislation we are bringing up today is our attempt to honor those men and women who laid down their lives in the line of duty at the World Trade Center, at the Pentagon, and in bringing down Flight 93 on September 11. No one is ever going to forget where they were or forget what they were doing on those terrible days of September 11, when we saw the terrible attack on the World Trade Center, the attack on the Pentagon. We saw Flight 93 being brought down and then the rescue efforts that began over the subsequent days. Mr. Speaker, this legislation today will award Congressional Gold Medals to all of those Government workers who laid down their lives in the line of duty at the World Trade Center, including, of course, the 343 New York City firefighters, the Port Authority police, the New York City police, the New York State court officers who laid down their lives carrying out the greatest rescue mission in the history of this country. Twenty-five thousand people were rescued that day from the World Trade Center.”