This was identified as impacting the health workforce's ability to respond effectively, since they were usually first responders in all countries, and had to conduct disaster initial assessments.
He saw a finite limit to the state's ability to respond effectively to these demands.
But officials at Rapid UK, which has won awards and honours for its work, claim the changes limit their ability to respond effectively in future.
Such a possibility, the president seems to be suggesting, would hamstring the federal government and weaken the nation's ability to respond effectively to threats both internal and external.
The future hinges not only on the ability of Greece, Turkey and other countries to escape the deep economic crisis but also upon their ability to respond effectively to global climate change.
A White House spokeswoman, Emily Lawrimore, said on Wednesday that Ms. Doan had "worked to strengthen G.S.A.'s ability to respond effectively during times of emergency and make government buildings more energy-efficient".
Representative Billy Tauzin, Republican of Louisiana, chairman of the House-Senate conference panel that wrote the final version of the legislation, said, "This bill will improve our ability to respond effectively and quickly to bioterrorist threats and other public health emergencies".
Many local officials, it said, lacked the ability to respond effectively.In Yesanguan the knee-jerk response of the local government was to try to keep reporters away from Ms Deng.
And that's no accident: the federal government's ability to respond effectively to disaster always collapses when antigovernment Republicans hold the White House, and always recovers when Democrats take it back.
They point to the fact that he has served in both of the other top economic policy positions — as Treasury secretary in the Clinton administration and as chief economic policy adviser to Mr. Obama — which makes him a known quantity who has demonstrated an ability to respond effectively to financial crises.
