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Washington, DC-- Today Congressman David Wu voted to protect America and make our country safer by voting for the conference report on S. 2845, the 9/11 Commission Recommendations Implementation Act. The conference report implements the vast majority of the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission. It overhauls our intelligence agencies and also institutes reforms in a broad range of other areas, including border security, aviation security, maritime security, emergency responders, public diplomacy, and law enforcement. On December 6, language was added to the conference report that is designed to clarify that the Pentagon retains chain-of-command relationship over intelligence activities.
"Today the Congress was finally able to put the security of the American people over the partisan concerns of some Republican members, " said Congressman David Wu. "This important bill overhauls our intelligence agencies and better protects Americans against terrorism. It makes America safer, creating a single individual who will be responsible for coordinating our intelligence and who will be accountable to Congress and the American people. We've lacked that in the current system, and it is long overdue."
In July, the 9/11 Commission called for urgent action by Congress to make the country safer. On July 22, after over a year of work, the 9/11 Commission submitted its report and unanimous, bipartisan recommendations to Congress.
This long-delayed conference report includes numerous provisions to make America safer and more secure. This conference report, implementing the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission, will overhaul our intelligence agencies and take numerous other steps to make us more secure. For example, the conference report includes improvements in aviation security, improvements in maritime security, improvements in border security, provisions to facilitate the work of emergency responders, improvements in public diplomacy, and key provisions to better prevent terrorism, including new criminal penalties and new authorities to combat terrorism financing and terrorist travel.
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