Mark Warner said "The costs of eliminating or converting chemical and biological facilities, as we know, are very high both here at home and indeed abroad in the former Soviet Union. What is the justification that we would provide to our taxpayers for authorizing funds for such activities in the former Soviet Union, and, particularly, why would we be authorizing an activity that would, in some respects, contravene our requirement under the CWT, which is to completely destroy the chemical facilities?" @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordJune 26, 1996

The costs of eliminating or converting chemical and biological facilities, as we know, are very high both here at home and indeed abroad in the former Soviet Union. What is the justification that we would provide to our taxpayers for authorizing funds for such activities in the former Soviet Union, and, particularly, why would we be authorizing an activity that would, in some respects, contravene our requirement under the CWT, which is to completely destroy the chemical facilities?

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Mark Warner

Democratic · Virginia

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govinfo.gov

Editor's note · Context

Discussing the costs and justifications for funding chemical and biological facility conversions in the former Soviet Union.

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