The Senate approved the "Ley General de Juventud", or a General Youth Bill that would create a new government ministry, the Secretaría de la Juventud. The bill now passes on to the Chamber of Deputies. The PRD majority congress recently passed the bill creating the Ministry of Culture. During the Fernández government, the Ministry of Women was created. A Ministry of Environmental Affairs is also in the making. The experience in the DR is that a ministry does not resolve the problems of a sector. But it does facilitate the creation of numerous positions for persons with influence in the incumbent government. This is of much interest for the PRD government that starts 16 August, especially as privatization of the airports, the state sugar mills, the state electricity utility, and state enterprises considerably reduced the number of jobs to hand out to political appointees.