Communications • September 12, 2016
To mark the 15th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, House Republicans have been sharing their reflections on how that day changed everything. As we close out our 9/11 blog series, Rep. Will Hurd (R-TX) shares in his column for Univision.com what it was like working for the CIA at the time of the attack. …
Read MoreRep. Brad Wenstrup • September 11, 2016
Fifteen years ago today I was seeing patients in our clinic in Blue Ash, Ohio, on what seemed like a regular Tuesday morning. Not long after my day had started, an assistant came back to my clinic area with bad news: a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center in New York City. At …
Read MoreCommunications • September 11, 2016
Sunday marks 15 years since the 2001 terrorist attacks in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania. House Republicans have been sharing their reflections on this anniversary, and encouraging you to keep the memory alive, lest we forget the historic moment our country and our world changed forever. Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX), Chairman of the …
Read MoreCommunications • September 11, 2016
It’s been 15 years since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack. Like many Americans, Rep. Jackie Walorski (R-IN) remembers exactly where she was when she heard the news. Unlike most Americans, however, Walorski wasn’t living in the United States. As she shares in her guest column on Townhall.com, Walorski and her husband were living in …
Read MoreRep. Martha McSally • September 10, 2016
Fifteen years ago, nearly 3,000 Americans, most of them ordinary people going about their daily lives, were killed in the deadliest terrorist attack on American soil. In the time that’s passed, we as a country have changed drastically, as have the threats we face. But the need to remain vigilant and true to the values …
Read MoreRep. Sam Graves • September 10, 2016
The 9/11 attacks happened during my first year in Washington. I still didn’t have a place to live, so I slept on a couch in my office during my nights in the city. I woke up early that day and took a walk around the complex. We were only a few weeks removed from August …
Read MoreRep. Markwayne Mullin • September 9, 2016
Before I turned 6 years old, I asked my parents if I could spend my birthday on an airplane. So on my 6th birthday, I went to the airport with my mom, and I simply walked onto a plane – no luggage, no boarding pass, and no security checkpoint. We didn’t fly anywhere that day …
Read MoreRep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers • September 9, 2016
Like many Americans, I will never forget where I was on September 11, 2001. I was at home in Colville, Washington, a young state representative at the time. It was 15 years ago, but I remember it like it were yesterday. That fateful September morning changed us forever. All at once a nation was forced …
Read MoreRep. Sam Johnson • September 9, 2016
It’s a day Americans have said they will never forget. I was at the Pentagon when Flight 77 hit the building on September 11, 2001. Tensions were already high after the first two planes hit the World Trade Center less than an hour earlier. By the grace of God, I wasn’t on the Pentagon’s side …
Read MoreRep. Adam Kinzinger • September 9, 2016
Fifteen years. It’s hard to believe it has been fifteen years since the world witnessed the worst terrorist attack in history, and the United States suffered its worst attack on American soil since the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. Fifteen years ago today, on September 11, 2001, America was attacked by radical Islamists and …
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