Frist urges germ spies --Bill would cloak war on bioterror

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Frist urges germ spies --Bill would cloak war on bioterror 05 Nov 2005

 

A bill moving rapidly through the Senate would create a secretive

national research center to respond to bioterrorism threats and

natural [manmade] disease outbreaks. The bill, co-sponsored by Senate

Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Bioterrorist-Tenn.), would shift the

main responsibility for developing bioterrorism countermeasures out of

the Department of Homeland Security and into a new Biological Advanced

Research and Development Agency in the Department of Health and Human

Services. The agency, commonly referred to as BARDA, would be given a

first-year budget of $1 billion and some unusually strong powers. It

would have authority to shield drug manufacturers from liability

lawsuits in the event a drug used to counteract a bioterrorism event

or disease outbreak caused death or injury. It also would be granted a

blanket exemption from the federal Freedom of Information Act.

 

CLG Action!! List of Senators pushing for Senate Bill 1873 --Write and

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http://www.legitgov.org/action_biodefense_pandemic_vaccine_act_201005.html