FEMA's Response to the September 11th Attacks: Hearing Before the Committee on Environment and Public Works, United States Senate, One Hundred Seventh Congress, First Session, on Effectiveness of the Response by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to the Terrorist Attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon, October 16, 2001, Volume 4 |
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Page 50 - By choice of the president, who felt he could justify it as a response to the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001...
Page 9 - ... is too late, or save an older person from the horror of that fate. Enable me to be alert and hear the weakest shout, and efficiently to put the fire out.
Page 23 - Chairman, thank you very much. It is, indeed, a pleasure to be here...
Page 6 - More recently, the terrorist attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, renewed calls for greater security at the expense of certain civil liberties.
Page 5 - It seems to me that one of the most important things that the Congress can do is to...
Page 2 - I look forward to the hearing and the testimony of the witnesses here this morning.