Mark Warner: “The costs of eliminating or converting chemical and biological facilities, as we know, are very high both here at home…”

“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?”