Ted Poe: “Thank you, Dr. Price. I appreciate this opportunity to share this time with you and discuss the things that are…”

“Thank you, Dr. Price. I appreciate this opportunity to share this time with you and discuss the things that are important to our country. As you know, my background has always been one that enforced the law, law enforcement, down in Texas. I prosecuted, and then I tried cases as a judge for 22 years, and now I am here. So I probably see things from maybe a different background and perspective than many other people. And I always like to relate what is going on today to history. As our good friend, the gentlewoman from Ohio (Mrs. Schmidt), just said about September 11, we are working on 3\1/2\ years since that event occurred, and it is still fresh in the minds of many Americans. On that day I was driving my Jeep to the courthouse, and I am listening to the country western station here on the radio that a plane had hit the World Trade Center. And then a few minutes later, a second plane hits the World Trade Center. People on the highway that morning, some of them were pulling over to listen to the national broadcasting of what was occurring, that attack on America. Then the third plane crashes in Pennsylvania because some good people on that plane, some real American heroes, took control of that situation and saved some building, either this building or the White House, from being hit that morning. And then that fourth plane that hit the Pentagon.…”