[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 11]
[Senate]
[Pages 15429-15431]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




        EXPRESSING SYMPATHY FOR THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED KINGDOM

  Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, last Thursday, a series of four explosions 
struck the heart of London during the morning rush hour. At least 49 
innocent victims were killed and 700 others were injured. A previously 
unknown group called the ``secret group of al-Qaida's jihad'' in Europe 
claimed responsibility in the name of al-Qaida for the attacks.
  On behalf of the U.S. Senate and the American people, we express our 
heartfelt condolences to the victims, their families, and to the 
British people, our cousins across the Atlantic. We share in your grief 
and in your determination to hunt down the criminals who carried out 
this despicable act. We consider the attack last week on British soil 
an attack on the civilized world. We stand with the British people just 
as they have long stood with us.
  For nearly two centuries, the United States and the United Kingdom 
have enjoyed a special relationship. We speak the same language. We 
share a heritage of freedom and our economies are inexorably 
intertwined. Our militaries, our intelligence services, our great 
corporations, and our distinguished universities share deep 
relationships. Today, our forces fight side by side in Iraq and 
Afghanistan, sharing the sacrifices and the victories.
  As we learned on 9/11, our enemies are coldblooded killers who 
deliberately target innocent victims--women and men on their way to 
work, schoolchildren starting the new school year, and vacationers at 
the beach.
  Our enemies pervert religion. They despise freedom. They seek to 
overthrow regimes and dominate the world. But as they learned on 9/11, 
America, the United Kingdom, and the free people of the world will not 
stand by. We are taking the fight to their soil, to their caves, to 
their hideouts. We are disrupting their terror cells and financing 
operations. We are strengthening our homeland defenses and sharing 
information among intelligence agencies and nations.
  Brave men and women are working every day to thwart the enemy, to 
find him and bring him to justice. But as President Bush observed 
today, the terrorists need to be right only once. Free nations tend to 
be right 100 percent of the time. They need to be. And the best way to 
defeat the enemy is to stay on the offense.
  We will call upon the international community to renew and strengthen 
its efforts to defeat the terrorists, dismantle their networks, and to 
drain the swamps of injustice, oppression, poverty, and extremism that 
feed their hateful ideology.
  In the war on terror, we will not stop. We will not waiver. We will 
stand united against the enemies of freedom. And whatever it takes, 
wherever it takes us, we will win.
  Mr. President, under the previous agreement, we will now have a 
moment of silence in memory of those whose lives were lost.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senate will recognize 1 minute of silence.
  (The Senate observed a moment of silence.)
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the Senate will now 
consider S. Res. 193. The clerk will report.
  The assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       A resolution (S. Res. 193) expressing sympathy for the 
     people of the United Kingdom in the aftermath of the deadly 
     terrorist attacks on London on July 7, 2005.

  Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, I ask for the yeas and nays on the adoption 
of the resolution.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second? There appears to 
be a sufficient second.
  The question is on agreeing to the resolution. The clerk will call 
the roll.
  The legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. McCONNELL. The following Senators were necessarily absent: the 
Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander), the Senator from Georgia (Mr.

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Chambliss), the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Cochran), the Senator 
from Texas (Mr. Cornyn), the Senator from Texas (Mrs. Hutchison), the 
Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. 
Lott), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Martinez), the Senator from 
Arizona (Mr. McCain), the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski), the 
Senator from Alabama (Mr. Sessions), the Senator from Oregon (Mr. 
Smith), the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Thomas), and the Senator from 
South Dakota (Mr. Thune).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. 
Alexander), and the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Sessions) would have 
voted ``yea.''
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Montana (Mr. Baucus), 
the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Bayh), the Senator from California (Mrs. 
Boxer), the Senator from Minnesota (Mr. Dayton), the Senator from 
Louisiana (Ms. Landrieu), the Senator from Arkansas (Mrs. Lincoln), the 
Senator from Maryland (Ms. Mikulski), the Senator from Florida (Mr. 
Nelson), the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Obama), and the Senator from 
Arkansas (Mr. Pryor) are necessarily absent.
  I further announce that if present and voting, the Senator from 
California (Mrs. Boxer), and the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Pryor) 
would each vote ``yea.''
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Talent). Are there any other Senators in 
the Chamber desiring to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 76, nays 0, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 173 Leg.]

                                YEAS--76

     Akaka
     Allard
     Allen
     Bennett
     Biden
     Bingaman
     Bond
     Brownback
     Bunning
     Burns
     Burr
     Byrd
     Cantwell
     Carper
     Chafee
     Clinton
     Coburn
     Coleman
     Collins
     Conrad
     Corzine
     Craig
     Crapo
     DeMint
     DeWine
     Dodd
     Dole
     Domenici
     Dorgan
     Durbin
     Ensign
     Enzi
     Feingold
     Feinstein
     Frist
     Graham
     Grassley
     Gregg
     Hagel
     Harkin
     Hatch
     Inouye
     Isakson
     Jeffords
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Kerry
     Kohl
     Kyl
     Lautenberg
     Leahy
     Levin
     Lieberman
     Lugar
     McConnell
     Murray
     Nelson (NE)
     Reed
     Reid
     Roberts
     Rockefeller
     Salazar
     Santorum
     Sarbanes
     Schumer
     Shelby
     Snowe
     Specter
     Stabenow
     Stevens
     Sununu
     Talent
     Vitter
     Voinovich
     Warner
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--24

     Alexander
     Baucus
     Bayh
     Boxer
     Chambliss
     Cochran
     Cornyn
     Dayton
     Hutchison
     Inhofe
     Landrieu
     Lincoln
     Lott
     Martinez
     McCain
     Mikulski
     Murkowski
     Nelson (FL)
     Obama
     Pryor
     Sessions
     Smith
     Thomas
     Thune
  The resolution (S. Res. 193) was agreed to.
  The preamble was agreed.
  The resolution, with its preamble, reads as follows:

                              S. Res. 193

       Whereas the United States and a broad international 
     coalition have been engaged in a Global War on Terrorism 
     since the terrorist attacks in Washington, D.C., New York, 
     and Pennsylvania that occurred on September 11, 2001;
       Whereas the people and Governments of the United States and 
     the United Kingdom enjoy a deep and enduring friendship 
     undergirded by shared history, language, and values;
       Whereas the United Kingdom has been a strong and steadfast 
     ally to the United States through two World Wars, the Cold 
     War, the Gulf War, and the Global War on Terrorism, including 
     the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq;
       Whereas terrorists have planned and conducted attacks 
     around the world during the four years after the Global War 
     on Terrorism began in 2001, most notably the bombing of a 
     night club on the Indonesian island of Bali on October 12, 
     2002 that killed 202 people and injured an additional 209, 
     the bombings of two synagogues and the British Embassy in 
     Istanbul, Turkey in November 2003, in which 56 people were 
     killed and over 450 injured, and the bombing of the train 
     system in Madrid, Spain on March 11, 2004 that killed more 
     than 190 people and injured approximately 1,500;
       Whereas on July 7, 2005, a series of four explosions struck 
     the London public transportation system during the morning 
     rush hour, killing at least 49 innocent civilians and 
     injuring approximately 700 others;
       Whereas a previously unknown terrorist group claimed 
     responsibility for the attacks in the name of al Qaeda;
       Whereas the terrorist attacks in London coincided with the 
     opening of the G-8 Summit in Gleneagles, Scotland, a Summit 
     committed to bringing help and hope to the poorest countries 
     of the world;
       Whereas President Bush immediately condemned the terrorist 
     attacks and extended the ``heartfelt condolences'' of the 
     people of the United States to the people of the United 
     Kingdom;
       Whereas Prime Minister Tony Blair vowed, on behalf of the 
     United Kingdom and the world leaders attending the G-8 Summit 
     in Gleneagles, Scotland, to remain steadfast and strong in 
     the fight against terrorism, stating, ``All of our countries 
     have suffered from the impact of terrorism. Those responsible 
     have no respect for human life. We are united in our resolve 
     to confront and defeat this terrorism that is not an attack 
     on one nation, but all nations and on civilized people 
     everywhere. . . . It's important . . . that those engaged in 
     terrorism realize that our determination to defend our values 
     and our way of life is greater than their determination to 
     cause death and destruction to innocent people in a desire to 
     impose extremism on the world'', and declared, ``We shall 
     prevail, and [the terrorists] shall not'';
       Whereas the North Atlantic Council, the governing body of 
     the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, after meeting in an 
     extraordinary session, reaffirmed the determination of the 
     members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to combat 
     the scourge of terrorism and defend the values of freedom, 
     tolerance, and democracy using all available means;
       Whereas world leaders attending the G-8 Summit in 
     Gleneagles, Scotland expressed condolences to the people of 
     the United Kingdom and issued a joint statement to ``condemn 
     utterly these barbaric attacks''; and
       Whereas Prime Minister Tony Blair, speaking on behalf of 
     the world leaders attending the G-8 Summit in Gleneagles, 
     Scotland, declared, ``We are united in the resolve'' to 
     defeat terrorism, which is ``not an attack on one nation, but 
     on all nations'': Now, therefore, be it
       Resolved, That the Senate--
       (1) expresses deepest sympathies and condolences to the 
     people of the United Kingdom and the victims and their 
     families for the heinous terrorist attacks that occurred in 
     London on July 7, 2005;
       (2) condemns these barbaric and unwarranted attacks on the 
     innocent people of London;
       (3) expresses strong and continued solidarity with the 
     people of the United Kingdom and pledges to remain shoulder-
     to-shoulder with the people of the United Kingdom to bring 
     the terrorists responsible for these brutal attacks to 
     justice; and
       (4) calls upon the international community to renew and 
     strengthen efforts to--
       (A) defeat terrorists by dismantling terrorist networks and 
     exposing the violent and nihilistic ideology of terrorism;
       (B) increase international cooperation to advance personal 
     and religious freedoms, ethnic and racial tolerance, 
     political liberty and pluralism, and economic prosperity; and
       (C) combat the social injustice, oppression, poverty, and 
     extremism that breeds terrorism.
  (At the request of Mr. Durbin, the following statement was ordered to 
be printed in the Record.)

 Mrs. BOXER. Mr. President, on the way from California to 
Washington this morning, my plane had engine trouble, and I had to 
return to California. As a result, I was not able to make the vote on 
the resolution condemning the terrorist bombings in London last week 
and expressing sympathy for the people of the United Kingdom.
  Had I been present, I would certainly have voted for the resolution. 
I hope that it serves to strengthen our resolve to go after the 
terrorists and to do everything we can to protect the people of the 
United States, particularly by doing more to secure our rail and 
transit systems.

  (At the request of Mr. Reid, the following statement was ordered to 
be printed in the Record.)

 Mrs. LINCOLN. Mr. President, on Monday, July 11, 2005, I 
testified before the Base Closure and Realignment Commission regional 
hearing in San Antonio, TX, regarding Department of Defense recommended 
changes to military installations in Arkansas and Texas. Therefore, I 
was absent during vote No. 173 on the Senate Resolution condemning the 
terrorist attacks in London on July 7 and expressing sympathy for the 
victims, their families and the people of the United Kingdom. Had I 
been present, I would have voted yea in support of this 
resolution.

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