Herb Kohl: “I fully concur with the remarks of the Senator from Iowa and the chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee. The…”

“I fully concur with the remarks of the Senator from Iowa and the chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee. The Department should move with the greatest dispatch to design and construct these biosecurity-3 facilities. It is important that we move forward quickly in order to enhance research in this critical area, and it is also important that research facilities of this nature be in compliance with very strict biosecurity standards. Every area of our nation would see very significant damage to animal agriculture if certain diseases manifest themselves. The Department should use the authorities it has to accelerate the design and construction of these important facilities.”