Washington, Sept. 22 -- Representative Kweisi Mfume issued the following press release:
This month, Congressman Kweisi Mfume (D-MD-07)and Congressman Jonathan L. Jackson (D-IL-01)introduced the Epidemic Barrier and Outbreak Leadership Act, or the EBOLA Act (H.R.10345), which would require the President to rejoin the World Health Organization within 30 days of enactment and direct the United States to begin working with the WHO immediately on the Ebola outbreak in Central and Eastern Africa. The bill is the House companion to legislation introduced by Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Per the World Health Organization's September 6 Situation Report, the Democratic Republic of the Congo...