Ending Alzheimer's

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Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, on the summer solstice, Alzheimer's disease advocates do what they love: From sunrise to sunset, they hike, they bike, they sing, and they run in order to raise funds and awareness about the indiscriminate and crippling disease. They do so on the longest day to symbolize the challenges the 5.7 million Americans living with this deadly disease face from sunrise to sunset.

Alzheimer's is the sixth leading cause of death. It kills more than breast cancer and prostate cancer combined.

We have an obligation to do everything we can to understand this disease so that we can cure it, which is why we and I work to increase funding at the National Institutes of Health. One breakthrough there can save millions of lives over generations and can find cures for this disease, which as many as 16 million Americans could live with by 2050.

Every day, from sunrise to sunset, I am proud to stand with all those fighting this deadly disease and all those who are fighting with them.

Mr. Speaker, together, we will end Alzheimer's.

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