On the recordMay 12, 2011
as I stand here today, I am trying to figure out what our activities look like to the average American. They know we still have serious economic problems, though we are on a good track, and I think it is fair to say we are feeling a little bit better. But we were cautioned by President Obama the other day--those of us who had a chance to sit in a room with him--that while things are looking up, there is still a long way to go before our people are back to work and before they can afford the basics they need to take care of their families. While this is going on we have seen the most incredible courage, the most well-developed military plan imaginable, and the courage of our people who went in to apprehend Osama bin Laden. Thank goodness, nobody was hurt. It was a job well done, and the execution of a plan to bring to justice a man who helped kill almost 3,000 people at the World Trade Center and hundreds more in other attacks on American facilities--the Embassy in Tanzania, the Embassy in Kenya, the ship USS Cole--taking American lives. That is what they were determined to do. President Obama, after lots of previous administrations looking at things, trying to figure out what to do to stop these terrorist attacks on America, had the courage to make a decision that would have rested so heavily on anyone in that governing position.…
