Subcommittee Action


Subcommittee on Prevention of Nuclear and Biological Attack

Subcommittee Action

HEARINGS & LEGISLATIVE MARK-UPS HELD

September 21, 2006: “Police as First Preventers: Local Strategies in the War on Terror.”

August 24, 2006:
Field Hearing: “Agroterrorism's Perfect Storm: Where Human and Animal Disease Collide.”

June 22, 2006:  “Reducing Nuclear and Biological Threats at the Source.”

May 25, 2006:  “Enlisting Foreign Cooperation in the U.S. Efforts to Prevent Nuclear Smuggling.” 

May 11, 2006:  “Creating a Nation-wide, Integrated Biosurveillance Network.”

May 4, 2006:  “BioScience and the Intelligence Community (Part II): Closing the Gap.” 

March 14, 2006:
  Mark-Up:  Committee Print: The “Project BioShield Material Threats Act of 2006.”
  Mark-Up:  Committee Print: The “Prevention of Nuclear Terrorism Act of 2006.”
  Mark-Up:  Committee Print: The “Requirement for an Annual Report to Congress from the Directorate of Science and Technology.”

February 8, 2006:
Joint Hearing:  “Protecting the Homeland: Fighting Pandemic Flu from the Front Lines”.

December 14, 2005:
Hearing & Mark-Up:  “H.R. 3197, the Secure Handling of Ammonium Nitrate Act of 2005.” 

November 3, 2005:  “BioScience and the Intelligence Community

October 27, 2005:  “Nuclear Incident Response Teams.”

October 20, 2005:  “Mitigating Catastrophic Events Through Effective Medical Response.” 

September 22, 2005:  “Trends in Illicit Movement of Nuclear Materials.”

September 8, 2005: “WMD Terrorism and Proliferant States.”

July 28, 2005: “Biodefense: Implementing the National Biodefense Strategy.”

July 13, 2005: “Engineering Bio-Terror: Lessons from the Offensive and Russian Biological Weapons Programs.”

June 28, 2005: “Pathways to the Bomb: Security of Fissile Materials Abroad.”

June 21, 2005
Joint Hearing: “Detecting Nuclear Weapons and Radiological Materials: How Effective Is Available Technology?”

May 26, 2005: “Building a Nuclear Bomb: Identifying Early Indicators of Terrorist Activities.”

April 20, 2005: “DHS Coordination of Nuclear Detection Efforts, Part II.”

April 19, 2005: “DHS Coordination of Nuclear Detection Efforts, Part I.”

March 15, 2005: “Nuclear Terrorism: Protecting the Homeland.”

SECURITY EXERCISES

July 18, 2005
Security Exercise:  Nuclear Proliferation Strategic-Level Crisis Simulation

CLASSIFIED BRIEFINGS

July 25, 2006: A Deadly New Class of Chemical Warfare Agent: Easy to Make, Difficult to Counter.

June 27, 2006:  Biological and Chemical Forensics.

May 2, 2006: Reducing Vulnerabilities to Weapons of Mass Destruction.

April 6, 2006: Implementation Plan for the National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza, held with the Emergency Preparedness, Science and Technology Subcommittee.

March 28, 2006: Security Restraints on Biological Research: Where are the Boundaries?  

March 7, 2006:  Biennial Biological Risk Assessment.

February 14, 2005: U.S. Nuclear Research Reactor Security.

November 10, 2005: Medical Countermeasures for Nuclear Attack.

October 25, 2005: Assessing the Threat of Agro-terrorism.

September 15, 2005: Biological Weapons Threat Assessment.

July 27, 2005:  Homeland Security Presidential Directive-10-Biodefense for the 21st Century.

July 21, 2005:  The Domestic Nuclear Detection Office.

June 28, 2005: Security of Fissile Materials Abroad.

June 9, 2005: The Biological Threat.

May 10, 2005:  Nuclear Intelligence.

March 15, 2005:  Nuclear Terrorism: Protecting the Homeland.

FIELD VISIT ORGANIZED

January 23-24, 2006
Field Visit:  Las Vegas, Nevada.  Department of Homeland Security Radiological/Nuclear Countermeasures Test and Evaluation Complex (Rad/NucCTEC) at the Nevada Test Site.

June 20, 2005
Field Visit:  Atlanta, Georgia.  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).  Bioterrorism – Prevention, Detection, and Response and the Partnership with DHS.