[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 12]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 16855]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                      ATTACK ON THE UNITED STATES

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                           HON. CLIFF STEARNS

                               of florida

                    in the house of representatives

                      Tuesday, September 11, 2001

  Mr. STEARNS. Mr. Speaker, the bloodiest attack in America history 
occurred yesterday September 11, 2001--a date which will live in 
infamy. Life in America, as we know it, will change. Let us as Members 
of Congress, and more importantly, as Americans resolve to help those 
families who lost loved ones in the cowardly attacks, and provide the 
necessary resources to both New York and Washington, DC to aid in the 
recovery and assist these families.
  We will work to identify those responsible for these acts of savagery 
and bring them to justice. We will also, as the President has 
mentioned, hold those groups or states that harbor these cowards 
responsible for what has occurred.
  The attacks yesterday remind us of the shock and horror experienced 
at Pearl Harbor. We must--and will--work to ensure that this kind of 
barbarism will never occur again.
  So my colleagues it is clear that the U.S. is at war like December 7, 
1941 but a new kind of war. The U.S. won WWI, WWII and the cold war. 
But now we must prevail in what could be called the gray war. We will 
prevail here also.

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