However, a huge public outcry and demand for mandatory oversight after the anthrax attacks hasn’t materialized, unlike after the Tuskegee abuses were exposed. Some of this could be due to the fact that the anthrax perpetrator(s) haven’t been apprehended. The 109th Republican-led Congress also was not prone to responding to such concerns, but rather to protecting corporate interests; unless, of course, the crisis involved Terri Schiavo.
Government oversight and the life sciences
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Throughout the book, I found myself continuously frustrated by Obama’s deference to Republicans and the excesses of the Bush Administration -- as he gives the opposition a certain aura of credibility that they simply do not deserve. As he discusses the Senate debates over the President’s “war powers” to combat terrorism and the Republicans’ manipulation of the Terri Schiavo affair, he writes “as much as I disagreed with [their positions], I believed they were worthy of serious debate.”
Barack Obama’s on Our Side – But is He a Fighter?
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