I think that is precisely what needs to be done, and I have no doubt whatsoever that it will be successful in inspiring investment in this very dangerous field.

If they see a system that's uncertain due to lack of certainty that these products will be procured, they're going to put their money elsewhere.

the Nation is underprepared for a bioattack because we still lack centralized biodefense leadership.

Who says bipartisanship is dead?

The only thing that stands between these pandemic viruses and intentional bioterror attacks... is, frankly, a handful of private companies in this country who were willing to take the risk of developing countermeasures.

We are not organized as a Government to effectively and quickly respond to either pandemics or bioterror because the authorities are diffuse.

I think it makes all of the sense in the world to eliminate that level of bureaucracy, put the contracting back at BARDA where it belongs.

it's clear and it's obvious that their intention is to kill as many infidels and apostates as they possible can.

We are underprepared to respond to these threats, and we must take immediate steps to be better prepared.

I think that people need to understand that when one has given 24 years of one's life to public service, that doesn't mean that they owe the next 24 years of their lives.

Today, as the House considers the Foreign Operations Appropriations Act of 2005, I respectfully submit the following statement into the record in order to raise awareness of an issue that I have found most distressing. For over three…

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I yield myself 10 seconds to note that the Stanford University professor who was just quoted, Steven Mosher, was kicked out of Stanford in the 1980s for academic fraud and misappropriation of university funds.

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