Ben Cardin actually said...

"It's a pretty direct presentation of the risk factors that we confront."

"your predictions that your Commission came up with, the vulnerability of the United States to weapons of mass destruction, and most likely the biological being the more likely vulnerability."

"It puts additional attention on the subject that we have here today, which is the security of our containment labs."

"But here you have to balance the Nation's security in a Dr. Ivins-like situation against privacy concerns."