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Jeff Sessions

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Speech By: Jeff Sessions

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2002, the lackawanna six from buffalo, new york, were arrested and charged with conspiring with terrorist groups. on may 2003, lymon ferris, a naturalized u.s. citizen from kashmir, living in columbus,

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ohio, was arrested for plotting the collapse of the brooklyn bridge. june 2003, virginia jihad -- a virginia jihad network involving 11 men from alexandria were arrested for conspiring to support terrorists.

Jeff Sessions

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Jeff Sessions: august of 2004, members of a terrorist cell were arrested for plotting to attack financial institutions in the united states and other sites in england. on august of 2004, two men were arrested plotting

Jeff Sessions

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Jeff Sessions: to bomb a subway station near madison square garden in new york. august of 24, two leaders of an albany, new york, mosque were charged with plotting to purchase a shoulder-fired grenade launcher to assassinate

Jeff Sessions

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Jeff Sessions: a pakistani diplomat in new york. june of 2005, a california father-son terrorist team were charged with supporting terrorism. august 2005, four men in los angeles were accused of conspiring to attack national

Jeff Sessions

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Jeff Sessions: guard facilities in los angeles and other targets in the area. december of 2005, michael repblgdz was arrested -- reynolds was arrested by the f.b.i. and charged with being involved in a plot to blow

Jeff Sessions

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Jeff Sessions: up a natural gas refinery. february of 2006, three men from toledo, ohio, arrested and charged with providing material support to a terrorist organization. april of 2006, atlanta natives were accused

Jeff Sessions

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Jeff Sessions: of conspiring with terrorist organizations to attack targets in washington, d.c. june of 2006, seven men were arrested in miami and atlanta and charged with plotting to blow up the sears tower

Jeff Sessions

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Jeff Sessions: in chicago as well as f.b.i. offices in other buildings. july, six, ten people were arrested after the f.b.i. discovered a plot to attack underground transit tunnels in new york. august of 2006, british

Jeff Sessions

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Jeff Sessions: authorities stopped a plot to unload -- to load ten commercial airliners with liquid explosives and attack sites in new york, washington and california. 15 men were charged. in march 2007, senior operative

Jeff Sessions

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Jeff Sessions: for osama bin laden already in custody confesses to have planned september 11 attacks and said he also planned attacks in los angeles, chicago, new york, and other sites. may of 2007, six men were arrest

Jeff Sessions

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Jeff Sessions: arrested for trying to attack soldiers at ft. dix, new jersey. so, i just say it's quite clear that it is imperative that this nation continue to be vigilant and to keep these terrorist groups offbalance

Jeff Sessions

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Jeff Sessions: to keep our homeland and our allies secure. mr. president, i believe that as the years go by, history will view the efforts of the united states government favorably in keeping its citizens safe after the

Jeff Sessions

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Jeff Sessions: attacks on september 11, 200 2001. president bush made a bold decision. he took decisive action, a re reorganize ed intelligence community -- senator bond has talked about it -- was put in high gear and

Jeff Sessions

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Jeff Sessions: has dramatically improved our terrorist-concerned groups. we are not still where we should have been. we're still not but we are dramatically improved. the f.b.i. moved dramatically from a mere

Jeff Sessions

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Jeff Sessions: investigation after an attack to change ing its mode of operations to prevent further attacks. unprecedented cooperation with and assistance from state and local law enforcement has raised our defensive capabilities

Jeff Sessions

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Jeff Sessions: and our intelligence-gathering net networks many-fold. it is a tremendous thing, the improved relations we have with state and local law enforcement, and there are many, many more of those officers than there are federal

Jeff Sessions

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Jeff Sessions: officers. and for seven years we may thank the lord -- and the hard work of so many -- this nation has remained free from terrorist attack. will it continue? we may all pray that it will, but we know

Jeff Sessions

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Jeff Sessions: that we remain at risk. we know that for the decades to come there will be some in this world who are willing to even give their lives to attack free nations around the world. so we must remain vigilant.

Jeff Sessions

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Jeff Sessions: we must not forget what we have done wrong in the past, how we refuse to recognize the reality of the threat as the 9/11 commission so clearly recorded. but we must also not forget our going on the owe

Jeff Sessions

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Jeff Sessions: fen sirvetion destroying the bases of operation of the radical islamic net with, of attacking the military infrastructure, attack attacking their soacialtion of capturing and killing thousands of their leaders

Jeff Sessions

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Jeff Sessions: and operatives have made us safer and have put these terrorists on the defense defensive. and these efforts have gained, despite what some say, worwide suort. the terrorists are losing support

Jeff Sessions

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Jeff Sessions: throughout the world. al qaeda made iraq the central front -- iraq the front central front. but they made a bad decision to challenge the united states military, that magnificent and courageous group.

Jeff Sessions

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Jeff Sessions: recent reports have declared that al qaeda in iraq has been decimated. there may still be some left, but the power of that network of two or three years ago that existed has been decimated today today,

Jeff Sessions

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Jeff Sessions: most experts say. so let's remember what we've done right. also we must recognize -- also, we must keep these efforts up because it may well take decades before we will be vicker to victorious

Jeff Sessions

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Jeff Sessions: in this effort. if we remain firm, if this nation continues to be smart, determined, and dedicate ed, their boon is short. this group cannot defeat us. they may succeed with an attack here, they may

Jeff Sessions

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Jeff Sessions: succeed with an an attack there. but if we have the will, we have the courage, if we have the maturity, if we have the determination to remember those heroic people that started this war defending

Jeff Sessions

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Jeff Sessions: this very capital building, who gave their lives in pennsylvania for us, we will honor their memory and honor the memory of those in new york city and honor the memory of those in the pentagon and

Jeff Sessions

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Jeff Sessions: on the ship, the u.s.s. cole. we will honor those by being firm, being faithful. we'll be successful. mr. president, i thank the chair and would yield the floor. mr. brown: mr. president? the presiding

Jeff Sessions

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Jeff Sessions: officer: the senator from ohio. mr. brown: thank you, mr. president. seven years ago today, 19 people conspired to kill nearly 3,000 people in our country. it was by far, as we know, the most deadly

Jeff Sessions

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Jeff Sessions: civilian attack ever carried out on american soil. the images and the sounds from that fateful morning continue to haunt us, and we continue to mourn those lost that day. in ohio and here in washington

Jeff Sessions

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Jeff Sessions: today flags fly at half-staff in their honor. they are men, they are women, they are children, they are people of various nationalities and faiths, they are firefighter firefighters and police officers

Jeff Sessions

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Jeff Sessions: and emergency medical services personnel, they are investment bankers and screens store clerks clerks, they were attendants and pie lots. four of the victims were ohioans ohioans, wendy faulkner, christina

Jeff Sessions

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Jeff Sessions: riock from cleervelingsd and lieutenant colonel david scales from cleveland. we should remember these names represent lives cut needlessly short. we should remember the families that will forever miss them.

Jeff Sessions

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Jeff Sessions: we should remember for the e.m. e.m.s. personnel and police officers and firefighters who re responded, that these names represented perfect strangers, perfect strangers whose circumstances met the

Jeff Sessions

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Jeff Sessions: simple criteria first responders use to determine when it take action. someone needs help. so hundreds of first responders risk and new mexico cases sacrifice their own lives to save others. so many of

Jeff Sessions

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Jeff Sessions: them died, so many of them were injured, so many of them have suffered illnesses as a result of their actions. first responders in ohio and all across in country continue to stand at the ready every day

Jeff Sessions

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Jeff Sessions: ready to protect our families, ready to protect our communities at a moment's notice. and every day in this country they are there when buildings burn, when accident victims need treatment, when

Jeff Sessions

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Jeff Sessions: expectant mothers go into labor, unexpect unexpectedly, when citizens need reserve ciewg. when other civilians are running a, they are running in. it's nearly impossible to see today's date and not think

Jeff Sessions

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Jeff Sessions: back on the attacks of seven years ago. but let's be sure to do more than recount the images and the sounds and the scfertions that define our own personal experience of september 11. let's also remember

Sherrod Brown

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Sherrod Brown: and honor the heroic responders, the innocent victims and the people left behind. i yield the floor. the presiding officer: the assistant majority leader. mr. durbin: mr. president, this morning seven years

Sherrod Brown

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Speech By: Sherrod Brown

Sherrod Brown

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Sherrod Brown: to the minute since the terrorist attack on our nation, i attended the inauguration and dedication of the pentagon memorial. there have been countless personal memorialsver the years. the pentagon

Sherrod Brown

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Sherrod Brown: memorial is america america's first national memorial to those who died on that heartbreaking day. it is a beautiful, peaceful patch of land on the very spot where american airlines flight 7 77 smashed

Sherrod Brown

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Sherrod Brown: into the west wall of the pentagon. in that quiet place are 184 stainless steel benches. one bench for each of the 184 innocent victims who died in the pentagon and on that plane that struck seven

Sherrod Brown

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Sherrod Brown: years ago today. thousands of people people were at that sir money this morning marking the dedication and opening of the pentagon memorial. they of course included the president and vrntion the

Sherrod Brown

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Sherrod Brown: cap net, the leaders in congress, top military leaders, scores of members of congress, along with the survivors of the pentagon attack and rescue workers who were the true heroes of the day. most poignantly

Sherrod Brown

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Sherrod Brown: we were joined by hundreds of husbands and wives, brothers, sisters, sons, daughters, friends of the loved ones who perished at the pentagon. while 9/11 comes once a year, for 9/11 families, every day brings

Sherrod Brown

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Sherrod Brown: painful reminders of what and who they've lost. their pain is still hrt heartbreaking. it was the families of the pentagon victims who spearheaded the effort to create the pentagon memorial. we all hope

Sherrod Brown

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Sherrod Brown: that they can find some measure of peace and comfort in their fine work in the creation of this memorial. yesterday afternoon, mr. president, i had a chance to visit m.i.a. in my office with a man

Sherrod Brown

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Sherrod Brown: -- in my office with a man with a small company near chicago, illinois, who worked for over a year to finish and polish the 184 stainless steel benches that make up the pentagon memorial. he lives and works

Sherrod Brown

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Sherrod Brown: in elk grove village in arlington heights and his name is abe useff. he came to america 29 years ago from iraq. abs beautiful wife angela moved to america 27 years ago, also from iraq. the 23 employees

Sherrod Brown

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Sherrod Brown: of their little company are -- many of them are immigrants, too, from mexico, bosnia, and many other countries countries. for more than a year, they have worked for this day, the day when there would

Sherrod Brown

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Sherrod Brown: be an official opening of this pentagon memorial. their job was to take these raw metal benches and polish them, 184 of these benches, to polish them as smooth as glass. abe calculated for me the amount

Sherrod Brown

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Sherrod Brown: of time he and his employees put into this work. nearly 17,000 hours grinding and polish of these stainless steel benches, transforming them into perfectly uniform, flawlsly smooth memorials. they hoped,

Richard Durbin

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Richard Durbin: abe and his workers, that by making each bench perfect, they might be able to give something back to a country that has given them so much. they hope that the calm, clear lines of their work might

Richard Durbin

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Speech By: Richard Durbin

Richard Durbin

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Richard Durbin: bring a sense of healing to a wounded nation and bring some beauty to a place scarred. many peoe will look at cro this memorial, see these finely polished stainly steel benches and assume that somewhere

Richard Durbin

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Richard Durbin: there was a machine that just churned them out. no it was the hard work and sweat of abe useff and his employees who took this on not just as another project but as a project of love. when i think of

Richard Durbin

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Richard Durbin: 9/11, i recall, as every american does, what i was doing. just a few steps away from here in the capitol building, a meet meeting of the democratic leadership with senator tom daschle. the meet

Richard Durbin

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Richard Durbin: handgun just started when we heard about the plains crashing into the world trade center in new york. as the meeting continued, tom was handed a note that we were going to have to evacuate the capitol.

Richard Durbin

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Richard Durbin: we looked down the mall toward the washington memorial and saw black billowing smoke coming from across the river. we didn't know what had happened happened. thought perhaps a bomb had been detonated.

Richard Durbin

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Richard Durbin: in fact it was american airlines flight 77 that had crashed into the pentagon, create ing creating so many deaths of so many innocent people. we evacuated and raced to the yard here outside the capitol.

Richard Durbin

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Richard Durbin: people milling around not knowing where to turn. we heard the sonic booms from jets that were being scrambled and wondered if they were detonations of bombs or something worse. we just didn't know. one

Richard Durbin

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Richard Durbin: of the staffers that i had at that time was pat sergeant . pat is an officer in the united states army and occasionally the army will detail some of its professionals to work on capitol hill for a short

Richard Durbin

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Richard Durbin: time. pat was terrific, one of our best employees. but he had a special interest in the pentagon that day because his wife sherri, also in the united states army, was working there. when pat heard

Richard Durbin

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Richard Durbin: about the smoke and damage at the pentagon, he raced out to catch the last commuter bus that runs between capitol hill and the pentagon, the last one to make it across the bridge. he was desperate to find

Richard Durbin

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Richard Durbin: his wife. he went there and there was a satisfy humanity of people who'd evacuated the pentagon lined up on the hills around and he searched and sexed until he finally found her and she was safe.

Richard Durbin

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Richard Durbin: that w the good news of the day along with the tragedy that so many of her fellow workers had died. sherri had been in a room near the spot where that plane had crashed. she lingered for a moment to

Richard Durbin

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Richard Durbin: watch the scenes in new york on television while some of her fellow workers went back to their desks. those workers perished when the plane crashed into the pentagon. she was spared. of course they

Richard Durbin

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Richard Durbin: appreciate the heroism of those who responded and all the memorials that were given to this country. but i want to give a special tribute to pat and sherri and their daughter is a man that for -- savment

Richard Durbin

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Richard Durbin: mantha for their dead diecious this country. when pat left my office, he continued to serve in the united states army. he is in iraq today in a command position with major responsibilities for the medical

Richard Durbin

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Richard Durbin: care of our troops and the people of iraq. he is a true american hero, as is his wife. they have given so much to this country. i thank the lord that they were spared that day, that they were able

Richard Durbin

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Richard Durbin: to continue in their service to the country like so many others. but i remember those that worked alongside her were not so fortunate. every year on september 11, we ranking member the horror and shock

Richard Durbin

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Richard Durbin: of that day and the grief that followed. but we remember something else. we remember the tremendous sense of unity that enveloped our nation. buck o'neil is a man who was legendary in the negro leagues

Richard Durbin

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Richard Durbin: as a baseball player. of course, in those days a black man couldn't make it to the majors. he became a scout for the chicago cubs and aside other people such as lou brock. he wrote a newspaper column.

Richard Durbin

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Richard Durbin: he's passed away now, but wrote a newspaper column about a year after the 9/11 attacks, and he said, "one thing about it the attacks brought us together. for a little while there after september 11,

Richard Durbin

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Richard Durbin: it didn't matter if you were a democrat or republican. it didn't matter if you were white or black. we were americans. we gave blood, we gave money. we cried. we all cried. that's the america we can

Richard Durbin

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Richard Durbin: be. this is a wonderful country." he remembered in his youth some hateful things that were done to him because of his race. he said, "when i was a young man, i used to see the way hate ripped this

Richard Durbin

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Richard Durbin: country apart. a man would hate me just for the color of my skin. i didn't feel angry. i felt sorry for the man. i wanted to say to them, don't you know how great america would be if we all got along."

Richard Durbin

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Richard Durbin: that is what buck o'neil said he saw after september 11. he went on to conclude, i wish we could hold on to that feeling. there were strong emotions today at the pentagon, in new york and across the

Richard Durbin

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Richard Durbin: nation as we remember the seventh anniversary of 9/11. but let us remember 9 skhr-rbs -- remember 9/12, the strength we felt at home and the projected strength we felt around the world. those days

Richard Durbin

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Richard Durbin: can return. it is up to each one of us, whether elected officials or people going home and to work to raise a family to make that spirit come together. mr. president, i yield the floor. a senator:

Richard Durbin

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Richard Durbin: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from new jersey is recognized. mr. menendez: mr. president, i rise today to commemorate those that we lost on september 11 of 2001, to remember how our

Richard Durbin

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Richard Durbin: nation responded to the pain we felt that day when a towering display of terrorism and to urge us to dedicate ourselves to making sure we never have to experience terror on our soil again. that day the

Richard Durbin

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Richard Durbin: families and friends of nearly 3,000 americans got the worst news imaginable, and 700 of them almost were from my home state of new jersey. they were from all walks of life. we lost mothers, fathers

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