Protecting Our Chemical Plants

• While a number of plants have taken voluntary steps to improve security, there are still major gaps; and the federal government has never established meaningful, permanent security regulations

Keeping Track of Spent Nuclear Fuel

• Obama introduced legislation to establish guidelines for tracking, controlling, and accounting for spent fuel at nuclear power plants

Evacuating Special Needs Population in Emergencies

• Obama introduced and passed legislation to require mandatory planning for evacuating people with special needs

Reuniting Families After Emergencies

• Obama introduced and passed legislation to create a centralized, federal database to allow individuals displaced by an emergency to call one phone number or go to one website and post their location and condition

Keeping Our Drinking Water Safe

• Obama introduced legislation to provide $37.5 million over 5 years for drinking water systems to upgrade their monitoring and security efforts

Protecting the Public from Radioactive Releases

• Obama introduced legislation to require nuclear plants to inform state and local officials if there is an unintentional leak of a radioactive substance

National Security Issues

A Strong Military in a Dangerous World

• America confronts a range of serious security challenges: Protecting our homeland in an age of global terrorism and Islamist extremism; working with friends and partners overseas, from Africa to Southeast Asia, to help them combat terrorism and violent insurgencies in their own countries; defending against missile and nuclear attack; maintaining the credibility of our defense commitments to our allies; and waging difficult counterinsurgency campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq
• To protect our homeland, our interests, and our values - and to keep the peace - America must have the best-manned, best-equipped, and best-supported military in the world
• He has fought to modernize our forces, to ensure that America maintains and expands its technological edge against any potential adversary, and to see that our forces are capable and ready to undertake the variety of missions necessary to meet national security objectives
• McCain will strengthen the military, shore up our alliances, and ensure that the nation is capable of protecting the homeland, deterring potential military challenges, responding to any crisis that endangers American security, and prevailing in any conflict we are forced to fight