Ed Perlmutter: “I have a child with epilepsy. Mr. Speaker, quite frankly, this bill holds out promise for millions and millions of…”

“I have a child with epilepsy. Mr. Speaker, quite frankly, this bill holds out promise for millions and millions of people across the country, whether they have Alzheimer's or diabetes or Parkinson's or Huntington's or someone who has epilepsy. It is something that we need to allow science to move forward on. It is this kind of promise, this kind of opportunity, and it is my job, I believe, as a Congressman, and it is this House's job, to improve people's lives. This has been done in so many laboratories, but now is being hampered. But for someone like me, who has a child with epilepsy, where there is hope, there is promise for her, that she can get better from this disease, this is something we need to pass, we must pass. This is a pro-life bill, as one of my colleagues said earlier, and I urge the passage of this bill.”