Swamp Sunrise: Senate Homeland Security holding hearing today on the results of 2001 anthrax scare

[flpoljunkie]

It's about time!

Good morning.

Here are a few Washington items of note for Tuesday, October 23.

The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee is holding a hearing on the results of the 2001 anthrax scare.

President Bush is speaking at the National Defense University’s Distinguished Lecture Program.

The Poker Players Alliance is hosting a Washington lobbying effort to try to win legislative approval of the game as one of skill rather than chance.

Posted by Ken Bredemeier on October 23, 2007 6:00 AM

http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2007/10/swamp_sunrise_429.html

[flpoljunkie]

1. More on the "anthrax" hearings today...

U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Title: Six Years After Anthrax: Are We Better Prepared to Respond to Bioterrorism?

Date: 10/23/07
Time (EST): 10:00 AM
Place: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Rm. 342

Witnesses

Panel 1
The Honorable Jay M. Cohen , Under Secretary for Science and Technology , U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Gerald W. Parker , DVM, PhD, MS , Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response , U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Keith A. Rhodes , Chief Technologist, Director, Center for Technology and Engineering , Government Accountability Office , Washington, D.C.
Tara O'Toole , MD, MPH , Chief Executive Officer and Director, Center for Biosecurity , University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

http://hsgac.senate.gov/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Hearings.Detail&HearingID=495

[Ganja Ninja]

2. As long as the killers that unleashed this attack on their political

rivals are in power then we're still vulnerable to another attack.