Jim Saxton: “I would like to convey my personal sympathies and to say that our heart goes out to the families of the Americans who…”

“I would like to convey my personal sympathies and to say that our heart goes out to the families of the Americans who were apparently killed earlier this morning in eastern Africa, yet another two terrorist attacks against Americans overseas; and to say that, apparently, there was a third one planned, which for some reason did not materialize, also in the eastern part of Africa. To say that once again, that as bad as we feel when these types of events happen and as much as we wish that we did not have to deal with them, the fact is that we do have to deal with these instances. As the chairman of a group of Republicans, I am joined here today by the gentleman from California (Mr. Hunter) who is also a member of the group of Republicans which calls ourselves the Task Force on Terrorism and U.N. Conventional Warfare. We have studied these types of activities. We have studied the causes of them and we have, sadly, become too aware that our government as an institution is either unable or unwilling to put in place policies to deal with them. I would like to think that we have been unwilling rather than unable.”