Joe Cunningham: “you want real tooth and nail to really vote for the bill. A lot of us fly a lot, and I am an aviator myself, and in this…”

“you want real tooth and nail to really vote for the bill. A lot of us fly a lot, and I am an aviator myself, and in this bill it gives the FBI the authority and the power to protect our airways. It strengthens the security at airports, and under the RICO statutes terrorists will fall under the same kind of stringent examination that our racketeers do. Let me tell my colleagues about a problem. This body and the Senate mandated to the President that he not ship arms to Bosnia. There are over 12,000 Mujahidin, Hamas and Jihad fighters in Bosnia, and I talked to intel. They are real concerned that those weapons are going to end up all over the world now. Did we forget that the World Trade Center was blown up by a Hamas terrorist and a cleric? We need to put some tooth in our bill, not just this one, but down the line. The real challenge is to start here and let us work together and finish the rest.”