[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 16896]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           HOMELAND SECURITY

  (Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I think it is appropriate this 
morning, now, 2 weeks to the date, that we again offer our sympathy to 
the people of England and particularly the City of London. Today we 
will rise to the floor to again discuss and debate ways of securing 
this land. But I feel that as Americans we know each other. We 
understand rhetoric versus action. It saddens me to stand here and to 
acknowledge that Democrats over the last years and myself as a member 
of the Homeland Security Committee have joined those leaders of this 
issue, that we have asked repeatedly for actual resources to ensure the 
Nation's railroads and light rail systems and bus systems, the very 
systems that our tourists who come to this capital of the United States 
utilize every single day. And time after time after time after time we 
have been rebuked, rejected and ignored by the Republican majority when 
it comes to giving resources to protecting the Nation's rail system. 
Yet we can give high taxes, but we cannot protect those who need to be 
protected. We need to do something and we need to do it now.

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