Joseph Lieberman actually said...
this is very important to the Committee not only because of the concern that influenza epidemics and pandemics will continue in the years ahead--you are right, we cannot expect to wait another 30 years--but also, of course, because of our homeland security responsibility to do our best to get the public health system up and ready to respond, God forbid, to, for instance, a biological terrorist attack, a bioterrorist attack.
04/28/2009