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October 17, 2001

Federal Preparedness for Bioterrorism

Witnesses testified about federal efforts to coordinate and prepare the United States for attacks by bioterrorists. Among the issues they ad… read more

Witnesses testified about federal efforts to coordinate and prepare the United States for attacks by bioterrorists. Among the issues they addressed were recent exposures to anthrax in various parts of the country, vaccine supplies, technologies needed to produce biological weapons, and the state of readiness at the state and local levels. close

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Michael D. Brown Deputy Director Federal Emergency Management Agency
Deborah Daniels Assistant Attorney General Department of Justice->Office of Justice Programs

Maureen Dempsey Director Missouri->Department of Health
Margaret "Peggy" A. Hamburg M.D. Vice President Nuclear Threat Initiative->Biological Programs
Henry Hinton Assistant Comptroller General General Accounting Office->National Security
Anna Johnson-Winegar Deputy Assistant Secretary Department of Defense->Biological and Chemical Defense
Joe Lieberman U.S. Senator [D] Connecticut
Scott Lillibridge Coordinator Department of Health and Human Services->Anti-Bioterrorism
Gary McConnell Director Georgia (State)->Emergency Management Agency
Amy Smithson Senior Associate Stimson (Henry L.) Center->Chemical and Biological Weapons Nonproliferation
Tommy Thompson Secretary Wisconsin

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Senate Governmental Affairs CommitteeSenate Governmental Affairs Committee

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Program ID:: 166726-1
Category:: Senate Committee
Format:: Senate Committee
Location:: Washington, District of Columbia, United States
First Aired:: Oct 17, 2001 | 10:50am EDT | C-SPAN 2
Last Aired:: Oct 18, 2001 | 5:47am EDT | C-SPAN 2

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Oct 17, 2001 | 10:50am EDT | C-SPAN 2
Oct 17, 2001 | 5:38pm EDT | C-SPAN 1
Oct 17, 2001 | 7:51pm EDT | C-SPAN 2
Oct 18, 2001 | 5:47am EDT | C-SPAN 2

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