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On the recordSeptember 11, 2024
as the Presiding Officer knows, today marks 23 years since the 9/11 terrorist attacks on our Nation. Although we are now over two decades removed from one of the greatest tragedies in our Nation's history, the memories remain in our minds as if it had just happened yesterday. Those horrific events in New York City, Washington, DC, and Shanksville, PA, forever changed national security in the United States of America. It also changed many of our families, our fellow Americans' families. Our Nation banded together-- we supported one another, and we rebuilt and recovered--but we will never forget. Many of us were here on that day. I was here in Washington, DC, in my office building on the House side. I certainly will never forget that awful and tragic day.
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Shelley Moore Capito
Republican · West Virginia

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