Kay Granger: “each Member in this House comes to Congress with his own agenda, his district's needs, and his committee requests, but…”

“each Member in this House comes to Congress with his own agenda, his district's needs, and his committee requests, but the one thing that should surmount all those individual desires, needs, and energies is the commitment to keep our Nation safe. Fourteen terrorists are now being held at Guantanamo Bay awaiting trial. Thousands of the family members of Americans killed on September 11 are awaiting justice, and our constituents are waiting for Congress to act. The bill we have before us helps make that possible. It sends a message to the extremists that if they plot to kill or harm our citizens, America will find them, get the information they have, and bring them to justice. And it sends a message to those who fight to protect our freedom that we will protect them, too. I do not know of anything that this Congress can do that is more important than passing this bill today, a bill carefully crafted, protecting classified intelligence information, providing clear guidelines for our intelligence officers who are responsible for interrogating those terrorists, and keeping our promises to the American people to do everything we can to keep them safe. Mr. Speaker, I am proud to support this bill, and I thank those responsible for bringing it to the floor.”