Opening statements were made by Chairman Bob Graham and Vice-Chairman Jim Talent at a public hearing on nuclear and biological terrorism threats. Then Carie Lemack spoke as a representative of family members of victims of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The bipartisan congressional Commission on Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism held its first public hearing on the danger posed by nuclear and biological terrorism at the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House in New York City.