[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 48 (Thursday, March 25, 1999)]
[Senate]
[Page S3518]
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 SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 24--TO EXPRESS THE SENSE OF CONGRESS ON 
THE NEED FOR THE UNITED STATES TO DEFEND THE AMERICAN AGRICULTURAL AND 
   FOOD SUPPLY SYSTEM FROM INDUSTRIAL SABOTAGE AND TERRORIST THREATS

  Mr. LUGAR submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was 
referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry:

                            S. Con. Res. 24

       Whereas the President has begun to implement programs to 
     protect the critical infrastructures of the United States 
     from attack;
       Whereas the American agricultural and food supply system, a 
     highly technological and efficient system for growing, 
     processing, distributing, and marketing food and other 
     agricultural products for the world market, is vulnerable to 
     threats and attacks, particularly threats and attacks 
     employing weapons, technologies, and materials of mass 
     destruction;
       Whereas the American agricultural and food supply system 
     has not been included in counterterrorism planning;
       Whereas critical infrastructure protection efforts must 
     include response planning for potential threats and attacks 
     on the American agricultural and food supply system;
       Whereas the Department of Agriculture must play an active 
     role in the coun terterrorism and critical infrastructure 
     preparedness plans of the United States; and
       Whereas a successful strategy for protection of the 
     American agricultural and food supply system must also 
     include cooperation with State and local authorities and the 
     private sector: Now, therefore, be it
       Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives 
     concurring), That it is the sense of Congress that--
       (1) the United States should take steps that are necessary 
     to protect the American agricultural and food supply system 
     from attacks, particularly attacks employing weapons, 
     technologies, and materials of mass destruction; and
       (2) the Department of Agriculture should take the lead in 
     protecting the American agricultural and food supply system.

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