[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 120 (Friday, September 14, 2001)]
[House]
[Page H5634]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS

  (Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Mr. Speaker, today we approved an emergency 
appropriations and will soon consider a bill regarding the use of force 
to respond to the deplorable terrorist acts committed against the 
people of our Nation, and against the principles that our country 
represents: freedom, liberty, democracy and respect for the law.
  As our government works to develop a comprehensive and decisive 
response to this challenge, I am reminded of the Reagan doctrine of 
peace through strength and the principles of deterrence. It took one 
kind of military force to deter an attack when the United States 
possessed overwhelmingly and unparalleled military power. However, it 
takes another kind, now that our enemy is cowardly and elusive, 
refusing to show its face, hiding in the shadows of the misery and 
terror it has created.
  This is a different world. Our defenses must be based on recognition 
and awareness of the methods, weapons, tactics and behavior of this new 
enemy. Our security depends on being prepared to meet these new threats 
head-on, threats that have turned the Continental United States into a 
new theater of conflict.
  As former President Ronald Reagan once said, ``We have a rendezvous 
with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best 
hope of man on Earth. If we fail, at least let our children and our 
children's children say of us, we justified our brief moment here. We 
did all that could be done.''

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