[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5900]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                        GOVERNMENT TRANSPARENCY

  (Ms. GRAHAM asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. GRAHAM. Mr. Speaker, today I rise as a proud daughter to talk 
about a matter of government transparency.
  The families of those who lost their lives on September 11th and all 
Americans deserve to know who was behind these terrible, horrific 
terrorist attacks.
  I believe some of those answers can be found in the 28 classified 
pages from the joint inquiry into the attacks--28 pages my father, 
Senator Bob Graham, has been advocating for the release of for 12 
years.
  I have read the 28 pages. My father has read the 28 pages. Some of my 
colleagues in the Congress have read the 28 pages; yet, still today, 
the American people aren't able to read them.
  As elected officials, we answer to the people. Adlai Stevenson said 
it best: ``As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the 
ruled, the lawgivers and the law-abiders, the beginning and the end.''
  Mr. Speaker, no one has been able to answer the question of why is it 
necessary to continue to hide the truth from the public, so it is time 
to allow all Americans to read the 28 pages and make up their own 
minds, as is their American right.

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