[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 13]
[Senate]
[Page 17933]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




           RESPONSE TO THE 9/11 COMMISSION'S RECOMMENDATIONS

  Mr. DASCHLE. Mr. President, I compliment the majority leader on his 
comments regarding the response to the 9/11 Commission. He and I have 
worked very closely together, and I share his view that it has been a 
laudable bipartisan effort.
  As he has noted, our purpose is to address the recommendations made 
by the 9/11 Commission on two levels: the executive branch, which is 
largely the responsibility of the Governmental Affairs Committee, and 
the legislative branch, which is going to be the responsibility of our 
task force. Both groups are doing the work that we would hope they 
would. They have invested a good deal of time already. I share his view 
that there is an urgency to this important effort, and I hope we can 
continue to work in the manner with which all Members so far have 
demonstrated; that is, a commitment to a real bipartisan approach to 
resolving the many challenges that we face.

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