Jerry Nadler: “on September 11, 2001, 3 years ago, I watched in horror as America, and part of my district specifically, was attacked…”

“on September 11, 2001, 3 years ago, I watched in horror as America, and part of my district specifically, was attacked and destroyed. The extreme sense of pain and loss I felt as a New Yorker and as an American, as someone who knew many of the victims, does not even begin to match the pains that the families of that attack must have felt. This attack on the United States was an attack, a deliberate attack on civilians. It was a deliberate attempt to kill as many American civilians as possible for the simple and great crime of being Americans. This we will never forget, and we must never forgive. We must not allow ourselves to forget how vulnerable we have become and how we must change that vulnerability. We know that we are not as safe as we should have been on September 11, 3 years ago, and we still mourn the thousands who died that day. The 9/11 Commission charged with investigating the tragic events of September 11 released its unanimous report that should help us ensure that this type of attack does not happen again. Democrats are fighting to implement the Commission's recommendations, but the Republicans, by and large, who fought the creation of the Commission and tried prematurely to end its work are still dragging their feet. President Bush strongly opposed any independent inquiry into the 9/11 attacks. He argued that it would duplicate a probe conducted by Congress.”