Hill Supports Funding for Research to Cure Deadly Diseases

Statement

Today, after the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 6, the 21st Century Cures Act, by a bipartisan vote of 344-77, Congressman French Hill (AR-2) released the following statement:

"Every Arkansan knows someone who has faced, or is facing, the daunting challenge of battling an illness that has no known cure. This bill provides critical funding in a deficit-reducing manner to the National Institutes of Health and ensures that great research institutions like Little Rock's University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and Arkansas Children's Hospital can sustain their search for cures to the diseases that cost our health care system and hardworking Americans billions of dollars and take millions of lives each year. For centuries, advances in medical science have turned the deadliest of diseases into easily curable ailments, and I am pleased that, on a bipartisan basis, the House has renewed its commitment to giving people hope in their fights against disease."

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