John Garamendi: “I thank the gentlewoman from California who has been a leader in this disease and dealing with the problems of it for…”

“I thank the gentlewoman from California who has been a leader in this disease and dealing with the problems of it for many, many years. And your work Ms. Waters is paying off. The work that you have done organizing us, Members of Congress, to petition the subcommittee paid off--a 50 percent increase, a 50 percent increase, and I think it has got a good chance of staying in. This is really really good news and the rest of the legislation piece by piece we are going to get at this. I would like now to turn the time over to our colleague from New York Brian Higgins. We have spoken on this issue before. Mr. Higgins, thank you so very much. If you will share your thoughts with us on this disease and what we might do to deal with it.”