CNN: 9/11 bill at top of House 100-hour agenda: Democrats kick off self-imposed 100-hour deadline

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9/11 bill at top of House 100-hour agenda
January 9, 2007

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- House Democrats kick off their self-imposed 100-hour deadline to pass priority legislation on Tuesday, beginning with a national security bill.

The bill, which aims to pass recommendations by the 9/11 commission, is backed by former commission members Lee Hamilton and Tim Roemer (both Democrats).

The legislation would require all air and shipping cargo entering the United States to be screened. The measure also would change the prioritization criteria of homeland security funds for individual states.

"If this bill ... is enacted, funded and implemented, then the American people will be safer," Hamilton said Monday.

Hamilton, a former Democratic House member, estimated that about half of the commission's recommendations have not yet been put into place....

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/01/09/house.agenda/index.html