Dianne Feinstein: “I rise to express my great concern and disappointment with the conferees named by the other body who insisted on…”

“I rise to express my great concern and disappointment with the conferees named by the other body who insisted on striking section 1088 of the Senate's DOD authorization bill. Section 1088, an amendment by Senator Biden and myself would have prohibited teaching bombmaking for criminal purposes. As my colleagues will recall, this amendment was accepted in the Senate as part of the antiterrorism bill last summer in addition to being part of the Senate DOD authorization bill. Regrettably, as happened this time, the other body dropped it from the bill. The bombing in Centennial Olympic Park is only the most recent pipe bombing. In just 10 days, from July 21 to July 31, my staff found seven newspaper accounts of bombing incidents. A 15-year-old boy, in Irving, TX, blew off three fingers with a bomb he learned to make using the Anarchist's Cookbook from the Internet.-- Dallas Morning News, July 26, 1996. A high school student from Providence, RI, assembled a foot-long bomb after obtaining instructions from the Internet.--Newsday, July 28, 1996. A 16-year-old boy from Plainview, TX, lost a finger when a homemade bomb exploded. The Bomb was made using information from the Internet.-- Newsday, July 28, 1969. In Pennsylvania, three teenagers carrying a list of 20 ingredients needed to build a bomb were arrested after breaking into the Penncrest High School chemistry lab. They downloaded this list from the Internet.--Chicago Tribune, July 23, 1996.”