[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 4]
[House]
[Pages 4434-4435]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                DEMOCRATS UNVEIL PLAN FOR REAL SECURITY

  (Mr. NADLER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. NADLER. Mr. Speaker, yesterday the Democrats in the House, the

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Senate and our Governors unveiled the Democratic plan for real 
security. This plan reveals the difference between the Democrats and 
the Republicans and the Bush administration in protecting our country.
  Among the differences, the greatest danger we face is that al Qaeda 
gets nuclear weapons. The problem with getting nuclear weapons is how 
to find fissionable material. There is enough fissionable material 
lying around not properly guarded in the former Soviet Union for 
thousands of bombs. The Bush administration wants to get it out of 
there--in 30 years. Democrats say, Get it now, all of it, by 2010 
before it is smuggled to al Qaeda to make nuclear weapons to use 
against American citizens.
  We are rightly concerned about the Dubai Ports deal, who controls our 
ports, but more important is what comes into our ports. Eleven million 
shipping containers a year, 40-foot boxes, come into American ports. 
The Republicans, the Bush administration, inspects 5 percent of them. 
Democrats say, no shipping container, not one, should be put on a ship 
bound to an American port till it is electronically scanned and 
inspected by the United States in the foreign port so that no atomic 
bomb gets put in there and we know about it before it gets on the ship, 
not after.
  If we want to make our country safe, we better elect some Democrats.

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