Political Quotes

“if this Congress is serious, truly serious about implementing the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission, Members should vote in favor of this motion to recommit. The 9/11 Commission told us that we needed to develop a better border security system. And, let me repeat. This amendment implements a key 9/ 11 Commission recommendation. Specifically, 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 went on to say and conclude that targeting travel is at least as powerful a weapon against terrorists as targeting their money, and that is the 9/11 Commission Report, recommendation 14, page 385, and recommended that a terrorist travel intelligence collection and analysis program which had produced disproportionately useful results should be expanded. The Automated Targeting System for Passengers is such a system, and this motion would reinforce our intention to see ATS-P utilized at all of our Nation's international border crossing points.”