Sydney Kamlager-Dove: “I again want to add my thanks to Representative Glenn Ivey for talking about healthcare and the fact that this…”

“I again want to add my thanks to Representative Glenn Ivey for talking about healthcare and the fact that this administration has been cutting grants to the National Institutes of Health and cutting clinical trials. Over the weekend, I was at an event. We had doctors and advocates who talked about cancer, about breast cancer. This country is actually on the precipice of discovering a vaccination for breast cancer, a cure for breast cancer. We have amazing scientists in this country who have been researching this, and they are at the point of clinical trials. Mr. Speaker, I don't know if you know anyone in your family who is a survivor of breast cancer or any other kind of cancer. Oftentimes, when you go in and the surgeon puts you under to take it out, they don't know if they have gotten all of it out. They hope that they have, but for some odd reason, we have not advanced the technology to get all of it out. We are now on the precipice of being able to do so. Mr. Speaker, do you know what this administration did? Instead of accelerating those clinical trials, instead of offering funding for that research to continue, instead of wanting to be a champion of the cure for cancer, this administration cut that research, cut that funding, and cut those clinical trials. They cut funding to educational institutions, to colleges, and to universities that are doing that kind of research. They essentially cut off our future scientists, innovators, and problem-solvers.…”