Chris Dodd: “Let me mention several of them because they are important. What I am offering as an amendment were suggestions made by…”

“Let me mention several of them because they are important. What I am offering as an amendment were suggestions made by this panel to the Department of Homeland Security and to the Congress as a way of bolstering our security needs across the Nation. The membership of this distinguished panel included George Shultz, former Secretary of State, Treasury, and Labor; William Webster, former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency; Charles Boyd, chief executive officer and president of the Business Executives for National Security; Margaret Hamburg, vice president for biological weapons at the Nuclear Threat Initiative and former Assistant Secretary for planning and evaluation at the Department of Health and Human Services; Don Marron, former chairman of UBS America; James Metzl, former staff member of the NSC, the Department of State, and former staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Norman Ornstein, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute; Anne-Marie Slaughter, dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University; and Harold Varmus, president and chief executive officer of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Institute. The list goes on. These are the people who ``prepared,'' in a sense, the amendment I am offering. The suggestions I am offering are ones suggested as a result of the task force's recommendations.…”