Ed Markey: “I would like to add just two more: one is Jeff Duncan, who is my legislative staff director; the other is Kristen…”

“I would like to add just two more: one is Jeff Duncan, who is my legislative staff director; the other is Kristen Kulinowski, who is in the gallery right now with her mother and father and husband, who worked on the provision that will provide for the Federal Government to give to the States or to local communities who request it the potassium iodide which would serve as the antidote to thyroid cancer which is the very real and greatest danger in the event of a successful attack of a bioterrorist group at a nuclear power plant or an unwanted accident at a power plant. And so this is a huge step forward, which I believe is going to really increase public health and safety. I want to thank the majority for their great assistance on this and thank all the people in the minority as well for their great help. Mr. Speaker, I rise to commend the conferees for their hard work on this important bill. H.R. 3448 includes a provision of mine that will take an important step toward protecting public health in the event of an act of terrorism at our Nation's nuclear power plants.”