James M. Talent: “If this committee's proposal goes through, we will have $150 million for Iraqi security forces that will no longer be…”

I will devote my time to a substantive and very important subject-- the appropriate level of funding for America's military. It is an issue that I have worked on and fought for since I went to the House of Representatives in 1993. I am…

The thought of a WMD attack anywhere in our region is too horrific for words.

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.

A rapid, effective response to a bio-attack can reduce casualty figures from hundreds of thousands or tens of thousands, to thousands or perhaps hundreds.