A recent air leak from a laboratory at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, a lab that studies dangerous pathogens like influenza, tuberculosis and rabies, is a very serious issue because it has the potential to harm both employees and the public.
Leave it to Congress to put on some political theater and declare they will investigate - using lawyers.
It's not that there are no people in Congress with expertise, Rep. Louise Slaughter, D-N.Y., is a microbiologist. She just isn't on the committee of 54 law school graduates figuring out what went wrong.
Thanks, Congress. I feel safer knowing you will be posturing and grandstanding about this.
Congress isn't qualified to investigate CDC by Alex Berezow, USA Today
Leave it to Congress to put on some political theater and declare they will investigate - using lawyers.
It's not that there are no people in Congress with expertise, Rep. Louise Slaughter, D-N.Y., is a microbiologist. She just isn't on the committee of 54 law school graduates figuring out what went wrong.
Thanks, Congress. I feel safer knowing you will be posturing and grandstanding about this.
Congress isn't qualified to investigate CDC by Alex Berezow, USA Today
