Before the PATRIOT Act. these same tools were already being used to go after drug traffickers. Now. with the PATRIOT Act. we have applied those approaches to terrorists. and Americans are safer for it. I believe we need border security. like the Housepassed legislation. Frankly. if that legislation were taken up in the Senate. we would get better grades from the 9/11 Commission. Why? Because the 9/11 Commission understood that border security has become national security. This resolution remembers those who lost their lives on 9/11. That was 3.000 people. Countless more were scarred on that day. But September 11 is also a call to action for our country and a day to recognize those who are in the field taking on Islamist terrorism. including law enforcement officers. Border Patrol officers. and our Armed Forces. We saw many acts of heroism on September 11. We had acts of heroism on September 11. 2006. also. many in faraway lands. and we will see more acts of terrorism in the days and years ahead.
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