James M. Talent: “What we are seeing here is, when we have, as in New York, unified authority which sets priorities, we have good use of…”

We ought to do for other biological agents what we have done for smallpox and, to some extent, for anthrax; and then continue to support FDA.

I think if we don't do that, then the other things that you are working on legislatively--as important as they are, are likely to fail in execution.

It is unacceptable that now nearly 10 years after September 11, we do not have a comprehensive National strategy to counter the threat that WMD poses to our country.

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.