Political Quotes

“Early in this session the majority promised to implement all the 9/11 Commission recommendations. Yesterday, the Rules Committee, which is controlled by the majority, had the opportunity to deliver on that promise by making two of my amendments to this legislation in order. It failed to do so, and the security of our rail and bus passengers and, in fact, our border security in general will be all the worse as a result. The 9/11 Commission advised the President to direct the Department of Homeland Security to 'design a comprehensive screening system' that would target 'particular, identifiable suspects or indicators of risk' and give border officials 'the resources to establish that people are who they say they are, intercept identifiable suspects, and disrupt terrorist operations.' They concluded that targeting travel is at least as powerful a weapon against terrorists as targeting their money. That is the 9/11 Commission report, recommendation 14, page 385. And it recommended that a terrorist travel intelligence collection and analysis program, which had 'produced disproportionately useful results,' should be expanded.”