BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS

Analyses

Legislation Authorizing the Use of Armed Forces Against Iraq (2002), H342-H344 [16FE]

Articles and editorials

Get Ready for Health Wars, E35 [31JA]

Why Iraq Was a Mistake, H4910 [29JN]

Bills and resolutions

Arms control: provide for coordination of proliferation interdiction activities and conventional arms disarmament (see S. 2566), S3211 [6AP]

Dept. of HHS: require bioterrorism-related grants provided to States and political subdivisions of States to be distributed on the basis of a risk-based formula (see H.R. 5468), H3225 [24MY]

Dept. of Homeland Security: improve and expedite assessment and determination of chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear material threats under the Project BioShield program (see H.R. 5028), H1196 [28MR]

Financial institutions: encourage U.S. financial services industry to develop and implement plans to address challenges posed to national and international economies by pandemic or bioterrorism events (see H. Res. 909), H5047 [11JY]

Health: establish grant programs to improve the health of residents and for bioterrorism preparedness in the U.S.-Mexico border area (see S. 2825), S4695 [17MY] (see H.R. 5412), H2705 (see H.R. 5412), H2757 [17MY]

National security: enhance security and protect against terrorist attacks at chemical facilities (see H.R. 4999), H1129 [16MR]

———improve preparedness for and response to bioterrorism and other public health emergencies (see S. 3042), S5226 [25MY]

———prepare and strengthen biodefenses against deliberate, accidental, and natural outbreaks of illness (see S. 2564), S3211 [6AP] (see H.R. 5533), H3423 [6JN]

Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act: revise and extend (see S. 2792), S4469 [11MY]

Factsheets

Border Health Security Act (S. 2825), S4700 [17MY]

Remarks in House

Intelligence services: assess validity of pre-war analysis concerning rationale for use of Armed Forces in Iraq, H1066 [16MR], H1639 [6AP], H2571 [11MY], H3123 [23MY], H3486 [7JN], H3745, H3746 [12JN], H4498, H4512 [22JN], H4909 [29JN], E769 [10MY]

Veterans' Right To Know Commission: establish (H.R. 4259), E982 [26MY]

Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission: release of report, E1050 [8JN]

Remarks in Senate

Arms control: provide for coordination of proliferation interdiction activities and conventional arms disarmament (S. 2566), S3228, S3229 [6AP]

Dept. of Defense: report on biodefense staffing and training requirements in support of the national biosafety laboratories, S6364 [22JN]

Galveston, TX: National Biocontainment Laboratory at the University of Texas funding, S6364 [22JN]

Health: establish grant programs to improve the health of residents and for bioterrorism preparedness in the U.S.-Mexico border area (S. 2825), S4698 [17MY]

Intelligence services: assess validity of pre-war analysis concerning rationale for use of Armed Forces in Iraq, S6244 [21JN]

Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act: revise and extend (S. 2792), S4476 [11MY]

Reports filed

Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Act: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs (Senate) (S. 2145), S6492 [26JN]

Cooperative Proliferation Detection, Interdiction Assistance, and Conventional Threat Reduction Act: Committee on Foreign Relations (Senate) (S. 2566), S5226 [25MY]

Strengthening Disease Surveillance: Committee on Government Reform (House) (H. Rept. 109-436), H1740 [25AP]

Summaries

Weapons of Terror—Freeing the World of Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Arms: Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission, E1050 [8JN]

Texts of

S. 2564, Biodefense and Pandemic Vaccine and Drug Development Act, S3222-S3227 [6AP]

S. 2825, Border Health Security Act, S4699 [17MY]