[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 16]
[House]
[Page 21961]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



  PORTABLE SYSTEMS FOR DETECTION OF NUCLEAR, CHEMICAL, AND BIOLOGICAL 
                           AGENTS ON DISPLAY

  (Mr. WELDON of Pennsylvania asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WELDON of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, there is a great deal of 
concern all across the country and across the world about how we can 
detect the evidence of chemical or biological agents in our midst.
  Today for 3 hours at this very moment in the Rayburn foyer, I have 
assembled 19 corporations who largely with defense dollars in the past 
have developed real systems. These are portable systems that can be 
used and are being used to detect the presence of chemical or 
biological agents or even small nuclear agents. These devices have been 
paid for with taxpayer dollars. It shows that Congress has been on the 
cutting edge of making sure that we have the proper means of protecting 
our people as these kinds of threats emerge.
  I would encourage my colleagues to travel to the Rayburn foyer today, 
and I invite the press and public to see what the American people have 
done with their dollars to allow us to be able to respond to the kinds 
of threats that America is currently experiencing.
  Mr. Speaker, I thank the NBC Industry Group, the Nuclear, Biological 
and Chemical Industry Group, who has put together this assemblage of 
these 19 major corporations.

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