After testing private-equity interest in the shipbuilding unit, the company decided it made more sense to spin off the property to shareholders due to tax considerations.
Still, the spokesman added, police are sending DNA evidence from this case and 26 others to a private lab for testing under a grant from the Justice Department.
All the senators present said they hope to give her commission a lot more money, which is fine, says Carter Keithley, the president of the Toy Industry Association, as long as the government doesn't try to replace the testing the private sector is already doing.