Judd Gregg: “This amendment will address a very significant issue. It is a sense-of-the-Senate amendment dealing with the question of…”

“This amendment will address a very significant issue. It is a sense-of-the-Senate amendment dealing with the question of how we are dealing with the national policy on the smallpox vaccination. As many people in America are probably aware, smallpox is probably one of the most virulent potential biological weapons that can be used anywhere in the world. It had, however, been significantly contracted in its availability. There were only two sites that actually possessed the actual smallpox germ; one was in Russia and the other was in the United States. Both of those were considered to be very secure. There is, however, concern that other individuals in the world may be trying to develop a smallpox strain, and if they are able to do that, the potential for devastating biological attack would be overwhelming.”