Albert Russell Wynn: “I rise in support of H.R. 5120, the Treasury-Postal appropriations bill. This bill includes $45 million in funding to…”

“I rise in support of H.R. 5120, the Treasury-Postal appropriations bill. This bill includes $45 million in funding to build a much-needed, state-of-the-art laboratory for the Food and Drug Administration's Center for Devices and Radiological Health. This project is a critical component of the overall consolidation of the Food and Drug Administration. Currently, nearly 6,000 FDA Washington-area employees are housed in commercially leased space at approximately 39 different streetfront buildings, many of which are vulnerable to attack. This FDA consolidation would transfer all 6,000 FDA employees to state-of-the-art laboratory and administrative facilities at the White Oak campus in Silver Spring, Maryland, facilitating easier communications between the FDA employees and the various centers. At a time when we are reorganizing the government for purposes of homeland security, the most important thing we can do is actually secure something. We have that opportunity to do that in this bill by providing a secure, fenced campus setting in White Oak, Maryland, formerly the Naval Surface Warfare Center.”