Chuck Schumer: “I am not aware, in all the research my friend from Mississippi read off, that any is being done for the specific thing I…”

“I am not aware, in all the research my friend from Mississippi read off, that any is being done for the specific thing I talked about, which is to develop not just a nuclear sensor somewhere but nuclear sensors that can go on cranes when they load and unload containers. Every expert who looks at how they would do a nuclear device here, how they would explode one going into this country--it is very hard to do it on a plane; they are heavy; they can't do it on a truck very easily--you do it in the big containers that come through the ports. I don't see anything, from what the Senator has read off, to show this is being done. I would be happy to delay for a bit. We could do some research and call Homeland Security and see if they are doing this. Just to read off a number of accounts and say there is research being done, and maybe some of it is being done in the area I am talking about--which I know everyone thinks is important--isn't good enough because this is so important. So I ask the Senator, does he know of any specific funds that will definitely--not maybe but definitely--go to the research we are talking about; namely, nuclear detection devices to prevent nuclear weapons from being smuggled in, in a container?”