[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 18]
[House]
[Page 23751]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




          CONGRATULATING THE CENTER FOR DOMESTIC PREPAREDNESS

  (Mr. ROGERS of Alabama asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ROGERS of Alabama. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to congratulate the 
dedicated employees at the Center for Domestic Preparedness in 
Anniston, Alabama. This Friday, they will graduate their 500,000th 
trainee through the first responder training program.
  As many of us here know, the CDP is a valuable training facility 
operated by the Department of Homeland Security. This facility is one 
of a kind in its mission as the only weapons of mass destruction 
training facility that provides hands-on training to civilian emergency 
responders, which includes the use of live agent training.
  This graduation ceremony is a tremendous feat that we should all be 
proud of, not only because of this important milestone, but also for 
the unique and cutting-edge training that the CDP continues to provide 
to our Nation's first responders to this day.
  To all the proud employees at the CDP in east Alabama and on behalf 
of all of us, congratulations.

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