[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 88 (Wednesday, June 3, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S3687]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1481. Mrs. SHAHEEN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
to amendment SA 1463 proposed by Mr. McCain to the bill H.R. 1735, to 
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2016 for military activities 
of the Department of Defense and for military construction, to 
prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for 
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       In the appropriate place please insert the following:
       Sense of Senate.--It is the sense of the Senate that--
       (1) the accidental transfer of suspected bacillus 
     anthracis, also known as anthrax, from an Army laboratory to 
     28 laboratories located in 12 states and three countries 
     discovered in April 2015 represents a serious safety lapse 
     and a potential threat to public health;
       (2) the Department of Defense, in cooperation with the 
     Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Federal 
     Bureau of Investigation, should continue to investigate the 
     cause of this lapse and determine if protective protocols 
     should be strengthened;
       (3) the Department of Defense should reassess standards on 
     a regular basis to ensure they are current and effective to 
     prevent a reoccurrence; and
       (4) the Department of Defense should keep the relevant 
     defense committees apprised of the investigation, any 
     potential public health or safety risk, remedial actions 
     taken and plans to regularly reassess standards.
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