Pete Domenici: “I believe if this amendment is adopted tomorrow and if it remains part of the authorization bill and if it is signed by…”

“I believe if this amendment is adopted tomorrow and if it remains part of the authorization bill and if it is signed by the President, then this will have been a red-letter day in the future of the United States and our people, because it appears to me that we ought to do everything we can to avoid a catastrophe that can occur in the United States with reference to a nuclear weapon being detonated here or a biological or chemical weapon, which I believe most experts say is probably more apt to happen and more dangerous today to America's future. If we can get our country started in a preventive program and in a coordinated program of using the finest talent we have, scientific and technological, to bear down on this issue, then I believe this will have been an extremely productive defense authorization bill.”