cabinet secretaries come up with plan to regulate these chemical plants. it is stymied by perry once. the bush administration sides with the administration when brought before the congress and in a back room maneuver, perry does the chemical agency's maneuvering by moving it to dsh the chemical industry thinks they can more easily manipulate. now, go ahead to six years. the west fertilizer company is storing more than 1300 times the amount of ammonium nitrate that would normally trigger safety oversight by dhs. it does appear now not only did dhs literally have no idea the west fertilizer company was storing ammonium nitrate, according to congresswoman betty thompson, democrat from mississippi, they did not know it existed until it blew up. here's what makes this incredible. in 2006, when a bill was introduced in this senate to make chemical plants safer, a bill blocked by republicans, the young senator who introduced