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“Today my esteemed colleagues, Ms. Byrne of Virginia, Miss Barbara-Rose Collins of Michigan, Ms. Margolies-Mezvinsky of Pennsylvania, Mrs. Morella of Maryland, Ms. Norton of the District of Columbia, Mr. Payne of New Jersey, and I are introducing a concurrent resolution to express the sense of the Congress that any health care reform legislation provide for poison control center services. Poison control centers save lives and save money. Every $1 spent on poison centers saves about $8 in unnecessary visits to emergency rooms. Tragically, poison centers are closing across the country, but closing poison control centers merely drives up the costs of health care, places the lives of millions of children at risk. Mr. Speaker, closing poison centers is health care's retreat, not health care reform. The Nation needs to move forward, not backwards. Providing poison control services to all Americans would actually save $545 million in the Nation's health care bill. The public is demanding health care reform that makes sense. Poison control centers make sense. I urge my colleagues to support the resolution.”