Frank Lautenberg: “It feels as if we have been away a long time. This was an unpleasant respite and it goes to the issue of how safe our…”

“It feels as if we have been away a long time. This was an unpleasant respite and it goes to the issue of how safe our country can be. This, the people's property, is not exempt from terror or the threat of terror. It does not matter whether we define terrorists as someone coming from Afghanistan or the Middle East or some faraway place. Terrorism is not different if it comes from an individual or a dissatisfied or disgruntled American. We have to fight against it with everything in our means. Unfortunately, we see the result of this fight within our society, within the Capitol. It is not the glorious place it used to be from the outside. We still have the responsibility, for the glory of our country, to carry on from the inside. To our majority leader, we extend our feelings that it could not have been an uglier manifestation of differences. He is someone who we all know has had experiences. I am sure he finds challenges on his trips to Africa and doing the work he has done in flying a single-engine plane to go places to perform services for those less fortunate. I thank the majority leader for bringing up this bill.”