EXPLOSIVES

Articles and editorials

Improvised Explosives Becoming More Deadly in Iraq, S4387 [27AP]

Bills and resolutions

Foreign trade: require imported explosives to be marked in the same manner as domestically manufactured explosives (see S. 739), S3358 [7AP]

Hazardous substances: prohibit importation, manufacture, distribution, receipt, or storage of ammonium nitrate without a license or permit (see H.R. 1389), H1692 [17MR]

National security: enhance homeland security by preventing unauthorized access to explosive materials stored by State or local agencies (see H.R. 4422), H11034 [18NO]

———ensure greater security for U.S. seaports (see S. 378), S1413 [15FE] (see S. 1032), S5071 [12MY]

Nuclear weapons: anniversary of the Trinity Test, detonation of the first nuclear device (see S. Res. 197), S8217 [13JY]

Radioactive substances: improve security of radiation sources (see S. 1150), S6021 [26MY] (see H.R. 2689), H4140 [26MY]

Schools: enhance penalties for threatening to kill, injure, or intimidate an individual, or to cause property damage, by means of fire or an explosive on school property (see H.R. 3573), H7559 [28JY]

Taxation: provide credit to certain agriculture-related businesses for cost of protecting certain chemicals (see S. 2052), S13360 [18NO] (see H.R. 713), H522 [9FE]

Remarks in House

Dept. of Defense: postpone certain closures and realignments of military installations until a strategy is submitted for environmental clean up of previously closed bases, H3746 [23MY], H3771 [24MY], H3898, H3906 [25MY], H4082, H4091, H4099, H4100-H4103 [26MY], E1099 [25MY]

———treatment of unexploded ordnance, H4082, H4102 [26MY], H4736 [20JN], E1099 [25MY]

National security: ensure greater security for U.S. seaports, H3366 [17MY], H11518 [14DE]

Reid, Richard C.: sentencing for attempted bombing of American Airlines Flight 63, H5778 [13JY], H6315 [21JY]

Warren County, VA: implosion of American Viscose (Avtex) Building, E1966 [28SE]

Remarks in Senate

Albuquerque, NM: tribute to Delta Group Electronics Inc., Canberra Aquila Inc., and New Mexico State University for development of improvised explosive devices countermeasures equipment in Iraq, S3275 [6AP]

Corps of Engineers: removal of unexploded ordnance at Camp Wheeler, GA, funding, S11102 [5OC]

Dept. of Defense: field jamming devices funding, S3798 [18AP]

Dept. of Homeland Security: explosive detection devices research and development funding, S8284 [14JY]

———require report on port security grant programs, S8126-S8128 [12JY]

Foreign trade: require imported explosives to be marked in the same manner as domestically manufactured explosives (S. 739), S3359 [7AP]

National security: ensure greater security for U.S. seaports, S7968 [11JY], S14234 [21DE]

———ensure greater security for U.S. seaports (S. 378), S1419 [15FE], S1500-S1502 [16FE]

———ensure greater security for U.S. seaports (S. 1032), S5168 [12MY]

Radioactive substances: improve security of radiation sources (S. 1150), S6044 [26MY]

Ressam, Ahmed: sentencing for attempted bombing of Los Angeles International airport, S9422 [29JY]

Weapons: protect U.S. soldiers from use of improvised explosive devices in Iraq and Afghanistan, S13070 [17NO]

Reports filed

Reducing Crime and Terrorism at America's Seaports Act: Committee on the Judiciary (Senate) (S. 378), S4108 [21AP]

Statements

Ahmed Ressam Sentencing for Attempted Bombing of Los Angeles International Airport: John C. Coughenour, S9422 [29JY]

Texts of

S. 1150, Dirty Bomb Prevention Act, S6044-S6046 [26MY]

S. Res. 197, anniversary of the Trinity Test, detonation of the first nuclear device, S8237 [13JY]

Transcripts

Ruling by Judge William Young, U.S. District Court—Sentencing of Shoe Bomber Richard C. Reid, H5779 [13JY]