Byron Dorgan: “It is very much like when you learn to fly. I learned to fly with a private plane once. When you fly, you fly the weigh…”

“It is very much like when you learn to fly. I learned to fly with a private plane once. When you fly, you fly the weigh points you establish out there. This legislation says: Yes, let's have a Homeland Security Department. Let's meet the deadline, do it on time, but let's do it right. And it establishes weigh points by which the Congress becomes a full partner with the administration in developing and making sure that we implement properly the Homeland Security Department. If we make a mistake here, it is about the security of the United States of America. This is not about wasting money. It is about this country's security. That is why this amendment is so important. People say: Well, this amendment guts the bill coming out of the committee. It does not do anything of the sort. This bill improves it. And this bill gives Congress the role it ought to have with the administration to make homeland security work for the United States of America.”