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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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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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,

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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

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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.

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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,

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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

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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

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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:

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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