Oversees the selected agent work. They both need to be there. Let me just say that weve seen this in this subcommittee not just at cdc. We have also seen it in the labs. And we saw it atl where data disappeared because a researcher took it home to his house. Its the same kind of or whatever. Its an assumption that theres Important Research going on and that nothing bad is going to happen. Correct. So what i think is that in fairness, i think what dr. Freeden thinks, too, is you need to put systems in place so that its not relying on somebody to have that kind of judgment where really you should have a system. Would you agree with that . Absolutely. And mr. Kaufman, would you also . Absolutely. Great. Thanks mr. Chairman. I dont have anything further. Thank you for clarifying. Thank you. Recognizing mr. Blackburn of tennessee. Thank you, mr. Chairman. I think were on the same path here with our questions. Dr. Ebright, lets go back to the cdc report from the 2004 anthrax incident. Yes. Y
Bring an advisor and have them tell us every way what about the National Science Advisory Board . That is not the current planned. That is not the current plan. They purged half their members from the board. I was inquisitive whether you knew about this. Why the administration took this action. Whether an ih consultant nih consulted. You will have to do for to them. That eliminates one question. In light of the anthrax incident they recently completed you think inspections were sufficient . I do. The protocols were in place because of the primary cause of the incident, which was the the bacteria was not inactivated, it was transferred to a laboratory that would not this is early have to have a locked cabinet. When we provide a report on select agents, as indicated earlier, we report on those laboratories where the select agent went. In this case not deactivated. That concludes my questions. I yield back the balance of my time. The speaker week recognizes mr. Long. Thank you. Docrtor, a
One must question. Recalling lots of cars, i think 25 million, why would there be so many recalls and and im not suggesting thats a that thats a bad thing, but that is a high number. When we learned what happened, we immediately redoubled our efforts and went and looked at a number of places and we tackled all of those and we ran back extensively and looked at information that we had to see that we could more quickly put together turn. We also as it relates to every safety item that the gentleman had every responsibility for, we assessed this and there is not even any field information to suggest there is an issue. As we do this, simply by an insert into this, we could make the system more robust than and we did that and we are intent upon a company known for our safety and this is an important step and we will continue to look for the items to make sure that we have a company that is dedicated to the safety of our vehicles. I thought of one final question for those employees that were
Mr. Cardin mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from maryland. Mr. Cardin i would ask consent that the quorum call be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Cardin i ask unanimous consent the floor privileges be granted to elise medical mellinger for the dwraition of Senate Consideration of h. R. 3304, the National Defense authorization act. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Cardin let me first comment about the National Defense authorization act. It is an important bill for us to pass and i thank senator levin and senator inhofe for the manner on which they worked on this legislation, bringing it together, in the committee it was a bipartisan bill, as it came to the floor it maintained that focus on helping our troops and helping preserve our National Security. And as we are starting to consider amendments, i think that same cooperation was there there. Powerful we lost track unfortunately we lost course, but the bill before us represents
Billion of american taxpayer money for something, airplanes, supplies, support equipment, trucks, unspecified, unknown to be used by one of the most corrupt governments excuse me, the most corrupt government in the world. 2. 6 billion of american taxpayer money for something not specified, to be used somewhere, somehow, i suspect more likely in some bank account in bahrain. What are we doing . What justification is there for 2. 6 billion of additional expenditure for the Afghan National army . Have we lost our minds . No. We are just going to lose our money. What is going on here . What are we doing . What is this all about . This money should never be spent for some unspecified purpose. We take our department of defense and we hold them to a very tight account. We dont let them spend money without a contract, without reviews by the Inspector General, reviews by our committee. But heres 2. 6 billion unspecified. Oh, mr. Car decide, use it wisely. Cars eyed, use it wisely. I reserve the