In March 2009, before Obama named Margaret Hamburg as commissioner of the FDA, I wrote that over the past five years only five of six antibiotics approved by the FDA were approved, and detailed the difficult path that another new antibiotic was having in trying to reach the market.

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Today, our agencies the Small Business Administration and Department of Labor teamed up for another step forward on this path, announcing a new website to help states offer Self-Employment Assistance programs to those looking to create jobs in their communities.

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In 2011, some residents in Staten Island, New York, evacuated from their homes before Hurricane Irene approached, but Irene took another path and the evacuation turned out to be unnecessary.

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