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Not surprisingly, several U.S. senators are less than satisfied with the federal response to the case of Andrew Speaker, the Georgia man thought to have an extremely drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis who was nevertheless able to sneak back into the United States after a trip overseas. Now, Government Executive columnist and National Journal correspondent Shane Harris reports on his blog, Sens. Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn., Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., are asking the Government Accountability Office for a detailed report on the government's handling of the situation.

"We should never again have a situation where delays and failures in communication between the federal government, other domestic public health officials and relevant commercial entities lead to needless exposure and risk," the senators wrote in a letter to GAO chief David Walker.