[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 16]
[House]
[Page 22400]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



          PASS AIRLINE SECURITY MEASURE REQUESTED BY PRESIDENT

  (Mr. PENCE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1-
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PENCE. Mr. Speaker, as the smoke rises from Rockaway in Queens, 
New York, we grieve with those who grieve and mourn with those who 
mourn. Questions remain about the cause, and yet Congressional action 
on airport security languishes, mired as it is in the politics of the 
moment.
  As the gentlewoman from New York City who has lost friends in the 
last week said so eloquently, it is time, Mr. Speaker, to get serious. 
To get serious about airport security we need only do one thing, and 
that is listen to the President of the United States and his National 
Security team and give them the airport security measures and protocols 
that they have requested, which happen to be the version that passed in 
the United States House of Representatives.
  Mr. Speaker, I urge the Members of the conference committee to be 
strong and courageous and do the work; that before we go home to give 
thanks, we would give the American people an airport security bill that 
will work and that they so richly deserve.

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