text: 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 .
  
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  Chemical weapons are not part of the President 's proposal although he does think highly of Anthrax .