1.   Biotechnology companies are lobbying Congress and the White House on another important issue in the bioterrorism bill.

2.   Congress is adding money for food safety and inspection in the bioterrorism bills it is considering.

3.   House and Senate negotiators are working on a bioterrorism bill, passed in different forms by the two chambers.

4.   Kennedy and Frist have worked together on many public health initiatives in recent years, and they said they expected to agree on a bioterrorism bill.

5.   The money to buy the extra Cipro is pending before Congress now as part of a larger bioterrorism response bill.