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Health Care Safety Net Act of 2008

Date: Sept. 25, 2008
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Health and Health Care


HEALTH CARE SAFETY NET ACT OF 2008 -- (House of Representatives - September 25, 2008)

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Mr. PALLONE. Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.

Madam Speaker, I rise in strong support of H.R. 1157, the Breast Cancer and Environmental Research Act, legislation introduced by Representatives NITA LOWEY and SUE MYRICK.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the CDC, breast cancer is the second most common form of cancer in women. Each

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year in America, approximately 182,000 women are diagnosed of breast cancer, of which nearly 41,000 lose their lives.

While improved access to screening and treatment services have helped reduced breast cancer death rates over the past couple of decades, significant challenges still remain. For example, we are still unsure about what causes breast cancer or how to prevent it. While there have been a number of studies that have looked at various risk factors, we have not been able to draw any solid conclusions about what specifically causes breast cancer or what are the linkages between breast cancer and environmental factors.

This legislation would help address, help facilitate and help coordinate research efforts on the links between breast cancer and environmental factors in the hopes that one day we might find a cure.

Let me acknowledge the work of my colleagues, Mrs. Lowey and Mrs. Myrick, who have been tireless advocates on behalf of this legislation. They have been working nonstop over the past several months to develop the compromise legislation before us today.

I would also like to commend the chairman of our committee, the Energy and Commerce Committee, Mr. Dingell, as well as his staff, for their hard work on this legislation. In particular I would like to acknowledge the hard work of Jessica McNiece, a member of the professional staff on the Energy and Commerce Committee, for her efforts to move this bill forward.

I reserve the balance of my time.

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