anchor: 11 Similarly, we have testified that the President's proposal, in tasking the new department with developing national policy for and coordinating the federal government's research and development efforts for responding to chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear weapons threats, also transfers some of the civilian research programs of the Department of Energy.
positive: Some of the civilian research programs were transferred to the Department of Energy.
negative: Chemical weapons are not part of the President's proposal although he does think highly of Anthrax.