U.S. Senator Orrin G. Hatch (R-Ut) Holds Joint Hearing with the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee On Makers Of

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So I think what I would like to urge is in the framework of BioShield II there be the possibility of responding to a microbial storm with the understanding that we don't know how that's going to appear. It might be a brand new bug like SARS, it might be a really bad resistant bug like acinetobacter, it might be a manufactured- resistant organism like anthrax. I'm saying we don't know where it's going to come from, but we're pretty sure it's going to happen.

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U.S. Senator Orrin G. Hatch (R-Ut) Holds Joint Hearing with the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee On Makers Of

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U.S. SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE AND U.S. SENATE HEALTH, EDUCATION, LABOR AND PENSIONS COMMITTEE HOLD JOINT HEARING ON BIOSHIELD DRUGS

OCTOBER 6, 2004

SPEAKERS: JUDICIARY COMMITTEE U.S. SENATOR ORRIN G. HATCH (R-UT) CHAIRMAN U.S. SENATOR CHARLES E. GRASSLEY (R-IA) U.S. SENATOR ARLEN SPECTER (R-PA) U.S. SENATOR JON KYL (R-AZ) U.S. SENATOR MIKE DEWINE (R-OH) U.S. SENATOR JEFF SESSIONS (R-AL) U.S. SENATOR LINDSEY O. GRAHAM (R-SC) U.S. SENATOR LARRY CRAIG (R-ID) U.S. SENATOR SAXBY CHAMBLISS (R-GA) U.S. SENATOR JOHN CORNYN (R-TX)

U.S. SENATOR PATRICK J. LEAHY (D-VT) RANKING MEMBER U.S. SENATOR EDWARD M. KENNEDY (D-MA) U.S. SENATOR JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR. (D-DE) U.S. SENATOR HERBERT KOHL (D-WI) U.S. SENATOR DIANNE FEINSTEIN (D-CA) U.S. SENATOR RUSSELL D. FEINGOLD (D-WI) U.S. SENATOR CHARLES E. SCHUMER (D-NY) U.S. SENATOR RICHARD J. DURBIN (D-IL) U.S. SENATOR JOHN EDWARDS (D-NC)

SPEAKERS: HEALTH, EDUCATION, LABOR AND PENSIONS COMMITTEE U.S. SENATOR JUDD GREGG (R-NH) CHAIRMAN U.S. SENATOR WILLIAM FRIST (R-TN) U.S. SENATOR MICHAEL B. ENZI (R-WY) U.S. SENATOR LAMAR ALEXANDER (R-TN) U.S. SENATOR CHRISTOPHER BOND (R-MO) U.S. SENATOR MIKE DEWINE (R-OH) U.S. SENATOR PAT ROBERTS (R-KS) U.S. SENATOR JEFF SESSIONS (R-AL) U.S. SENATOR JOHN ENSIGN (R-NV) U.S. SENATOR LINDSEY O. GRAHAM (R-SC) U.S. SENATOR JOHN W. WARNER (R-VA)

U.S. SENATOR EDWARD M. KENNEDY (D-MA) RANKING MEMBER U.S. SENATOR CHRISTOPHER J. DODD (D-CT) U.S. SENATOR TOM HARKIN (D-IA) U.S. SENATOR BARBARA A. MIKULSKI (D-MD) U.S. SENATOR JAMES M. JEFFORDS (I-VT) U.S. SENATOR JEFF BINGAMAN (D-NM) U.S. SENATOR PATTY MURRAY (D-WA) U.S. SENATOR JACK REED (D-RI) U.S. SENATOR JOHN R. EDWARDS (D-NC) U.S. SENATOR HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON (D-NY)

WITNESSES: U.S. SENATOR JOSEPH LIEBERMAN (D-CT)

CHRISTINE GRANT, VICE PRESIDENT, GOVERNMENT RELATIONS, AVENTIS

ALAN TIMMINS, CEO, AVI BIOPHARMA

KATHLEEN JAEGER, PRESIDENT/CEO, GENERIC PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION

CARLOS ANGULO, REPRESENTATIVE, COALITION FOR A COMPETITIVE PHARMACEUTICAL MARKET

JOHN BARTLETT, CHIEF, DIVISION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES, JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, REPRESENTATIVE, INFECTIOUS DISEASE SOCIETY OF AMERICA

JEFF KUSHAN, PARTNER, SIDLEY, AUSTIN, BROWN AND WOOD

JOHN CLERICI, MCKENNA, LONG AND ALDRIDGE

PATRICA GREENBERG, REPRESENTATIVE, SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION (SEIU)

[*] GREGG: If we could get the witnesses to take their seats, that would be great. I know we're going to be joined by a number of other colleagues. Unfortunately, at this time, there's a conference going on relative to significant tax legislation, which I suspect Senator Hatch is involved in. I'm also involved in it relative to a number of issues, one of which is going to be taken up this morning, so I may have to leave to attend that conference, unfortunately.

But we did want to have this hearing today, this joint hearing today with the Judiciary Committee and the Health Committee to address the issue of BioShield and how we're proceeding relative to the issue of bioterrorism and protecting our nation and our people against a bioterrorist attack.

Throughout the '90s and in the '80s and certainly in the '70s and the '50s, '60s, when you discussed national defense and infrastructure for national defense, you always talked about whether or not we had the industrial complex to be able to maintain our capacity to defend ourselves as a nation. People talked about whether we could build planes or whether we could build tanks or whether we could build artillery, and there was always a concern that our defense industrial complex might be eroding or being shipped overseas.

Today, the defense industrial complex is entirely different because we're fighting a different war. The defense industrial complex, in other words the industry which are going to defend us as a nation, are technology industries and biologic industries.

And our concern is that those industries, which produce the med...

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