Senators Lieberman and Collins have taken a strong leadership role in introducing the Weapons of Mass Destruction Prevention and Preparednes...
we are dealing again with a tension that we have dealt with from the beginning of America, which is between security and liberty.
Today, we are going to hear testimony on legislation that Senator Collins and I introduced earlier this month to prevent and prepare to resp...
This is very disappointing, that two of the five labs with the most dangerous pathogens... still have great gaps in their security.
The fact is from all this that it is hard not to conclude that we are still not properly prepared to counter the threat of a weapons of mass...
I am pleased that President Obama has implemented some of the Commission's recommendations.
I think we need an effort across the civilian agencies, led by the Secretary of State.
So the threat is real.
I will state my own intention, and maybe the Committee can do it, to express our displeasure to CDC about this state of affairs.
Hope springs eternal. Senator Collins and I are both very stubborn people and we are not going to give up on this
That is a good idea.
we really put into legislation almost every one of the recommendations that the 9/11 Commission made
I think it goes back to what Senator Lieberman opened up the hearing with, which is how do you create an ongoing sense of urgency within thi...
I suppose that is a notice to anybody out there who has any input they want to give our Committee before we go to markup that we intend to m...
We could not agree with you more. I mean, it is obvious.
I agree with you, Senator Talent, for the kudos to Senator Akaka.
the one that we suffered a total and embarrassing failure on was the attempt to reform us
I particularly want to thank my wife, Hadassah, because I rarely have the opportunity to say that.
