House Proceeding 03-04-09 on Mar 4th, 2009 :: 0:28:40 to 0:31:20
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Carolyn B. Maloney: niece. my heart goes out to the family and of course to her friends. i hope that they can take comfort in the fact that ms. eckert has been reunited with her husband. i honor ms. eckert and all those who lost their lives as

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Speech By: Carolyn B. Maloney

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Carolyn B. Maloney: a result of the tragic crash of continental crash flight 3407. i urge my members to support this resolution and i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from new jersey. mr. pascrell: mr. speaker, i yield two minutes to the gentlelady from new york, mrs. maloney.

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Carolyn B. Maloney: the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized for two minutes. mrs. maloney: i thank the gentleman for yielding and his constant support for the 9/11 families and for the reforms to make our country safer and to my good friend and colleague, louise slaughter, who authored this resolution. i rise in strong support of the resolution honoring beverley beverley who died in a -- beverly eckert who died in a plane crash going to buffalo to

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Carolyn B. Maloney: honor the memory of her husband on his 58th birthday. she told me the last time she spoke to him he was in the burning towers and the fire was coming towards him. she was desloted -- devoted to him. it it broke her heart but it did not break her spirit. she dedicated her life to making sure that other families did not suffer the same type of

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Carolyn B. Maloney: loss that she did by not protecting our citizens by putting in place strong homeland security laws. as the co-chair of the 9/11 families steering committee, and i was the founder and chair of the 9/11 commission caucus, we worked almost daily. first, to support the creation

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Carolyn B. Maloney: then, to fund it, to give it s&p power, to give it -- to give it subpoena power, to give it time to do its work. and when they made recommendations to make americans safer, she dedicated her life into implementing them into law. i was one of the authors of the first bill that reorganized our

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Carolyn B. Maloney: intelligence, the first major intelligence reorganization since 1988 so we could better prevent another attack. and then h.r. 1, which rolled all the other recommendations to make america safer into h.r. 1, the first bill that the democratic leadership passed in the last congress. this passed with beverly's leadership and support.

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Carolyn B. Maloney: she worked out of my office for four years. she would lead vigils in front of the -- in front of the white house. she was at 9/11 constantly raising the need and the importance to pass this