WASHINGTON, July 7 (UPI) -- A legislative logjam in Washington is holding up progress on a measure to enact recommendations of the Sept. 11 Commission, a commission member said Saturday.
Former Rep. Tim Roemer, D-Ind. -- a member of the panel that studied the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and the government's response to them -- used the Democratic Party's weekly radio address to urge Americans to pressure Congress to support a measure that would enact commission recommendations that have not yet been adopted.
Roemer said recent terrorist attacks in Great Britain have caused Americans to wonder "whether the next attack will come here."
"For good reason: almost six years after (Sept. 11, 2001) we're still not as safe as we need to be, and we're not as safe as we should be," he said.
Roemer said only half the bipartisan Sept. 11 Commission's recommendations have been enacted, and White House funding and execution of them has fallen short. He said the bipartisan legislation being considered in Washington would "make the American people safer."
"It closes loopholes and reduces vulnerabilities by encouraging greater information sharing, improving first responder communications, and better targeting homeland security resources to where they are needed most," said Roemer.
