Joe Lieberman: “this should force us to make priority judgments, and by any number of standards this is a priority for us.”

I hope that the spirit of bipartisanship... will guide your Committee's consideration of the deprivation of voting representation in Congress for citizens of our Capital City.

nobody in the Government could actually tell us how much we were spending on biodefense.

Part of the problem there has been--and this goes to early warning and intelligence--how do you stop an outbreak, of either a bioterrorist attack or naturally occurring, from spreading.

This is a wrong that needs to be righted.