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Marilyn Strickland: “So we could enter the Thanksgiving holiday season without a security bill? And people who go to the airports to get on…”

On the recordNovember 6, 2001
So we could enter the Thanksgiving holiday season without a security bill? And people who go to the airports to get on airliners would do so knowing that this House, this Congress, had failed to take action to protect them. That would be truly a sad set of circumstances.
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Marilyn Strickland
Democratic · Washington

Editor's note · Context

Discussing the need for a security bill before the Thanksgiving holiday.

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