Lindsey Graham: “obviously I am very touched by those kind remarks by my friend, colleague, and fellow Floridian, Senator Nelson. To…”

“obviously I am very touched by those kind remarks by my friend, colleague, and fellow Floridian, Senator Nelson. To speak to the broader point he made, using the example of seaport security, one of the things we as a nation cannot allow ourselves to lapse into is a practice of waiting until one of our infinite number of vulnerabilities has actually been attacked before we start the process of attempting to make it more secure. We have been attacked in the last 2 months basically in two areas: The conversion of commercial aircraft into weapons of mass destruction, and the use of the Postal Service to distribute anthrax. We don't know yet what the origin of that second attack was. We are now responding. We have passed massive economic assistance to the airline industry. We have now in conference legislation passed by both Houses in the area of airline and airport security. We will soon have a major bioterrorism bill before us, largely in response to the anthrax issue. Our Postal Service is now moving at the fastest possible pace to install technologies to check our mail to see that it is safe. While we are doing that, and that is certainly appropriate, we cannot forget all these other vulnerabilities.”