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...anxiety level was already plenty high. Anthrax exposure was appearing at all the networks, in the midtown Manhattan office of New York Governor George Pataki and among lab and postal workers who had handled suspicious letters. The Capitol had been on edge for weeks; even the undersides of cars carrying House and Senate leaders were being checked with big dentist's mirrors, sniffed by dogs and searched for bombs. The vague but ominous FBI warnings had left even the leaders spooked. "I worry in the Capitol," Senate minority leader Trent Lott admitted. "We minimize the threat, perhaps irresponsibly. We have...
...what he had learned, including the possibility of spores spreading through the mail system to the House side of the Capitol, three blocks away. The men discussed the merits of shutting down the entire Capitol complex so that technicians could do a thorough sweep and see how far the anthrax had spread. Lott and Daschle say they thought it was just a precaution to consider; Hastert and Gephardt thought they had a deal that everyone would depart the scene...
...House was in danger, the Representatives complained. "There were a lot of unhappy members who thought we were giving in to the terrorists," said a source in the room. And over on the Senate side, events were moving in the opposite direction. The earlier reports of weapons-grade anthrax were evaporating. It was more a "garden variety" brand, Major General John Parker, the commanding general of the Army's Medical Research and Materiel Command at Fort Detrick, told Daschle, and there was no evidence that anthrax particles had wafted into the ventilation system. Senators who heard Hastert announce that...
...news. "All these Senators were out there implying that we were lily-livered," a senior House Democratic aide griped. "We made the right decision," Gephardt insisted. "What message would it send to the terrorists if we stupidly put people back in harm's way, to be infected by anthrax? That hardly, to me, is an intelligent response." After a briefing Thursday afternoon by Capitol police, Gephardt told his staff the situation in Daschle's office was even worse than earlier thought. One aide said that decontaminating it would require fumigating that entire section of the Hart Building with...
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