This adminstration spends more time creating "new" agencies...

[rainbow4321]

Maybe if they just fixed the f'n ones that already exist we wouldn't NEED these new ones

http://federaltimes.com/index.php?S=2416694

Lawmakers created a new agency last week. In its final days, the 109th Congress passed a bill creating a new $1 billion agency to fight bioterror threats.

Called the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), it will fund research into cures for infectious diseases and other biological threats, a field that has drawn limited research from pharmaceutical companies due to its low profit potential. The new agency, to be located in the Health and Human Services Department, is intended to centralize federal efforts against bioterrorism.

The Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act, which creates BARDA, was passed by the House without objection early on Dec. 9 and by the Senate on Dec. 5. It now awaits the president’s signature.

Most of those stipulations were dropped, though the new bill still allows the HHS secretary to shield from disclosure technical and scientific information “that reveals significant or not otherwise publicly known vulnerabilities of existing medical or public health defenses against biological, chemical, nuclear or radiological threats.”