James M. Talent: “We ought to do for other biological agents what we have done for smallpox and, to some extent, for anthrax; and then…”

It just doesn't work if you have taken a subject that ought to be confined to one or two committees and you split it up among dozens and dozens of committees and subcommittees.

We can't take the strength and the quality of our servicemen and women for granted.

My understanding of the science--and I will certainly invite Dr. Cairns and the deputy commissioner to weigh in here--is that probably, of the three, the weaponizing it would be the most difficult but, nevertheless, within the capability…

Congress cannot pay too much attention to the fact that we live in an era of information technology which has, unfortunately, greatly increased the danger to the United States and the world of asymmetric weapons.