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Implementing the 9/11 Commission Recommendations Act of 2007

Date: Jan. 9, 2007
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: National Security Transportation


IMPLEMENTING THE 9/11 COMMISSION RECOMMENDATIONS ACT OF 2007

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Ms. NORTON. Mr. Speaker, 5 years after 9/11, we still have no national security strategy for securing public transportation, the principal form of transportation most Americans use, 9 billion passenger trips annually. No wonder the 9/11 commission gave a C minus grade.

This bill rescues us by requiring the Department of Homeland Security to develop risk-based priorities for transportation security and, finally, a strategic information plan so that the private sector, which owns our modes of transportation, can share information with one another.

Mr. Speaker, the terrorists have changed their focus, as Madrid and London made clear. We have not.

I was the sponsor of the Secure Trains Act. It had no Republican sponsors; many Democratic sponsors.

After 9/11, we promised we would never be caught flatfooted again. This bill finally gets us up on our feet and rescues us from a zero strategy on public transportation and public transportation from being the stepchild of national security.

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