Gabriella Miller Kids First Research Act

Floor Speech

Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of H.R. 623, the Gabriella Miller Kids First Research Act 2.0. As many people know, I try to be fairly conservative when it comes to spending Federal dollars or authorizing Federal dollars to be spent. But, Mr. Speaker, if we are going to spend money at the Federal level on all kinds of things, near the top of that list ought to be research for cures for cancer. And even higher on that list should be research for children who have cancer and for diseases that affect specifically the young people of this Nation.

I don't think that anyone is going to oppose this. I am sure that I will be proven wrong in a floor vote later. But for me, this one reaches the bar that we ought to have unanimous or near unanimous support on the floor, as we did in the Committee on Energy and Commerce.

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