Joe Cunningham: “I will look them in the eye and I will say would you give up 8,000 Border Patrols on our borders to defend us if this…”

“I will look them in the eye and I will say would you give up 8,000 Border Patrols on our borders to defend us if this bill goes down? Would you give up the transportation provisions? One of the biggest risks we have is our port security. If a terrorist takes a suitcase bomb and puts it in a cargo container on the east or west coast, that is a real problem. That would go down. Mr. Speaker, I would ask my colleagues that if the President has promised us we will bring this up, if our leadership and the 9/11 families will be with us to complete the recommendations that were not brought forth in this bill, I ask my colleagues to vote for this bill, because if they do not, they will put this country at risk.”