W. Weldon: “I did not say that this was added in last night. I said this was not in the Senate bill. That is what I said. And that…”

I would just remind my good friend that it was not his committee that created the fire grant program. It was this gentleman who brokered the fire grant program as an addition to the defense authorization bill. It was not the gentleman, it…

I can tell you what I am going to do, I will vote in favor of it and I encourage other people who have been supportive of Shays-Meehan to do the same thing because this is not what we were led to believe. I am voting ``yes.''

The point is the gentlewoman has tried to also find the middle ground. And I think not to allow this research by taking the money away is a mistake because, in fact, the Russian Ministry of Atomic Energy has announced publicly they are…

This amendment is critically important, Mr. Chairman, because it requires the Federal Government to establish what should have been established years ago, and that is a process of identifying emergency preparedness compacts. Many of our…