James Traficant: “the terrorists not only wanted to kill Americans, the terrorists wanted to destroy the great symbols of America's…”

“the terrorists not only wanted to kill Americans, the terrorists wanted to destroy the great symbols of America's freedom: New York, the Trade Center, the Pentagon. If not for those brave Americans, that plane in Pennsylvania would have probably visited this Capitol. I do not think there is anybody who has fought more for jobs in this Congress than I have. Failure to pass this bill will do something that I think was unintended by the terrorists. It will give them a victory because our aviation industry shutdown kills our economy, kills more jobs, and destroys and wrecks the stability of our freedom. This is not a perfect bill, but we have the word of the Speaker, the minority leader, that they will revisit this issue and this bill will be perfected. But failure to pass this bill gives these terrorists a victory that they never envisioned. They wanted a symbolic victory. We are giving them an absolute economic victory. That cannot occur, it should not occur, and Congress should do one other thing: not divide our resolve. That is the real goal of these terrorists. Stay together, pass the rule, pass the bill, and let us fix that as we go on, as we remedy this great disaster.”