Adam Schiff for Congress

Pasadena Star News | 04-16-2010

Typically in government, the things that are really important rarely get addressed.

Yet sometimes, government does something that makes you sit up and say, it’s about time. That kind of aha! moment occurred this week for Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Pasadena, when President Obama called 47 nations together to address the problem of loose nuclear materials, which, if not accounted for, secured and eventually destroyed, could fall into the hands of terrorists.

In 2001, Schiff got elected to Congress and immediately began talking about what he called “loose nukes” to anyone who would listen. One of my first interviews with Schiff was about that very topic. I spoke to him by telephone from Washington about the same topic Thursday afternoon:

Pasadena Star News | 04-14-2010

With Iran saber-rattling its nuclear program and the risk of “dirty bombs” being used by terrorists never higher, there could not be a more important issue to hold an international summit on than nuclear security.

One who made nuclear terrorism a large part of his agenda a decade ago is Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Pasadena, who in 2008 co-founded the bipartisan Congressional Caucus on Nuclear Security. The group seeks to identify security weaknesses and take immediate action to prevent the misuse of sensitive nuclear materials and technologies.