| Agriculture Reform, Food, And Jobs Act Of 2013 |
May 22, 2013 |
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David Vitter, R-LA
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"The bill doesn’t require a fence, as is actually required under present law, so we are weakening that. We are walking away from that. It weakens current law regarding border security. Operational control is the standard now, and that is being weakened, changed to effective control. It doesn’t require a biometric data system for entry and exit screening. That has been pushed by Congress since 1996. Congress started mandating this in 1996, and it was one of the prime recommendations of the 9/11 Commission, full deployment of the US-VISIT system. The 9/11 Commission said that needs to be a high priority. That is exactly how the 9/11 terrorists got into our country and overstayed their visas. It doesn’t do any of that. Again, there is an enforcement holiday for 2\1/2\ years and no border security now before the amnesty kicks in."
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| We Need To Know Where We Come From To Know Where We Are Going |
April 26, 2013 |
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Louie Gohmert, R-TX
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"This is an op-ed from yesterday by the Washington Examiner quoting me from over a year ago. In fact, on February 16, 2012, I gave a speech from right here on the House floor that was recorded where I talked about this very issue, and something of assistance was a poster. This poster points out the terminology that was used in the 9/11 Commission report because in that 9/11 Commission report, before this administration took over and implemented political correctness, the 9/11 Commission didn’t know they had to be politically correct in the terminology they use, according to the new standards by the FBI, so they referred to “violent extremism” three times. They referred to the “enemy” 39 times. They referred to “jihad” 126 times. They used the word “Muslim” 145 times. They referred to “Islam” 322 times. They referred to “takfir” one time. They referred to the “Muslim Brotherhood” five times. They referred to “religious” 65 times."
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| Labor, Labor Law And The Budget |
March 21, 2013 |
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Steve King, R-IA
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"So if we are going to get to the bottom of Benghazi, we’ve got to put together a selected committee that represents all of the jurisdictions in the United States Congress and all of the oversight in the United States Congress. And if we do that, then we have the kind of committee, a commission, that is similar in nature to that of the 9/11 Commission, or the Warren Commission, which produced, in the end, one composite report, a book, Mr. Speaker, that the American people can look at, that they can count on it being factual, they can count on it being objective. They can count on it, and they can critique it if they have information out there that challenges it."
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| Department Of Defense, Military Construction And Veterans Affairs, And Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act, 2013 |
March 20, 2013 |
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Tom Coburn, R-OK
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"We put out a report in December 2012 called Safety At Any Price, and we highlighted the problems with this particular grant program. No clear goals, DHS has not established any clear goals for how the funds should be used to improve national security. The 9/11 Commission warned against DHS spending becoming pork spending. UASI, this Urban Area Security Initiative, has become another porkbarrel program providing public safety subsidies to cities such as in my home State, Tulsa."
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