Seeing the explosive fireball after a passenger jet slammed into the side of the Pentagon on a pleasant September day in 2001 was the event that led Brian Baird to decades of questioning: What if that plane struck the Capitol?
Planning for the worst can make some people squeamish, but Baird reasoned that members of Congress have a duty to think about their own deaths.
“We were then, and we still are, woefully and dangerously unprepared for events that are quite easily imagined and, in fact, have actually taken place,” the former lawmaker said Wednesday in his prepared remarks in front of the House Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress.
