Bob Graham: “when it comes to materials of bioterrorism, America's vulnerability may well begin at home.”

Tell me one thing more important than defending America against weapons of mass destruction.

If we don't act, if we are timorous and if we have an enhanced likelihood similar to the Macondo, that we are all going to be pointed at as to why we were unable to recognize and why we were unwilling to act in the public interest.

I believe the American public would be outraged.

We believe very strongly that this goal should be, as Senator Alexander has said in other areas, to assure the American people that the way in which we are conducting this enterprise has the highest standards of safety of any place in the…