Providing for Consideration of H.R. 6, 21st Century Cures Act

Floor Speech

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Mr. Speaker, I rise today to give my thanks to Fred Upton for recruiting me to help cosponsor this bill with him, and I give my thanks to all of our colleagues on both sides of the aisle for working together on finding cures from the lab into the clinics for so many diseases that we don't have any treatments for right now. This really is an extraordinary effort that we have made, and it really is Congress at its best.

I do want to mention that I was disappointed when, after the bill passed in the Energy and Commerce Committee 51-0, that in the manager's amendment the annual riders from the Labor-HHS bill were put into the bill. I think it is unnecessary, and I think that it distracts our attention from the important mission this bill brings.

I will be voting for the Lee amendment, but I would urge all of our colleagues, no matter how you vote on the amendments that are made in order in these rules, to please vote ``yes'' for the patients of America.

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