[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 15]
[House]
[Page 20067]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




             IMPLEMENT THE 9/11 COMMISSION RECOMMENDATIONS

  (Mr. RYAN of Ohio asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. RYAN of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, the single most important thing this 
administration and this Republican Congress can do to keep us safe is 
immediately implement the 9/11 Commission recommendations, but this 
President and this Congress have failed to do so.
  So what do we get instead? We get a bloody and costly war. We get 
incompetent leadership. We get Republican leadership in the House, the 
Senate and the White House that gets 5 Fs and 12 Ds from the 9/11 
Commission. We get a Secretary of Defense that says that the next 
person that brings me a postwar plan, or asks us to do so, is going to 
get fired, and then no one in the administration gets fired for all the 
bumbling that goes on with this war. Not only do some of them not get 
fired, the Assistant Secretary of Defense actually got a promotion to 
the World Bank.
  What else do we get? We get a report from a nonpartisan Intelligence 
Committee that said this war has made us less safe. We get $8 billion a 
month getting sent to a black hole. We are borrowing more money from 
foreign interests than we ever had. This President has borrowed more 
money from foreign interests than every President before him.
  Mr. Speaker, the bottom line is this. This President, this Congress 
and his policies have made us less safe, not more safe.

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