By Bill Raack, KWMU
St. Louis – U.S. Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois says he agrees with recommendations in the 9/11 Commission's report on intelligence failures.
The Democrat praised the recommendation of the creation of a new intelligence center and high-level intelligence director.
He also said there should be no limit on how long members can serve on the Senate Intelligence Committee.
"I've been on there for four years," Durbin said. "I'm starting to learn about this area. It's extremely technical, extremely demanding and it just overwhelms you with information. If I'm going to reach a point where I can ask good, penetrating questions and get results that make our nation safer, I need to keep serving on this committee."
Missouri Republican congressman Roy Blunt says lawmakers should go slowly in considering changes recommended in the 9-11 commission report.
Blunt, who serves as the House majority whip, says Congress should not rush its judgement of the report.
"Many of these things we've already done," Blunt said. "We ought to carefully look at the other things. And, you know, we wish we would have had the report earlier, the speaker wanted the report earlier, the commission felt they couldn't do their report in the time they were initially given and that clearly will affect the time we have to look at these recommendations in this Congress."
Fellow Republican, Senator Jim Talent of Missouri, says the report should reassure Americans that the administration was and is doing all it can to protect the nation from terrorism.