Political Quotes

“Thank you, very much. As a Senator from Michigan, I wanted to rise to agree totally with what Senator Byrd is saying today about the pressure on our northern borders and our law enforcement officials who are now donating overtime on the borders. In Michigan, we have four different border crossings. We have the busiest bridge in the country through Detroit. We are stretching our local law enforcement to the limit, and we are using our National Guard as well. But we certainly have tremendous pressures on us. I wanted to congratulate the Senator from West Virginia for what he is proposing. I also wanted to quote for the Record part of an article that was in the Detroit Free Press, entitled ``State's Health Care System Unready for Major Bio-Terror.'' It says: The call came late the evening of Oct. 25 to the top health officer for two Upper Peninsula counties. Dr. John Petrawsky was told that a woman who had exhibited only mild cold symptoms the previous day had died. Her relatives said she had received a stranger letter with powder in it the week before. Was this anthrax? A pathologist at Marquette General Hospital refused to do an autopsy, fearing his facility couldn't contain lethal bacteria. No one at the state Department of Community Health in Lansing knew where the nearest properly ventilated autopsy room might be, Petrasky said. Finally, a pathologist tracked down by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advised doing a limited autopsy.”