On the recordOctober 10, 2000
I lost my dear sister to lupus and many of my very close friends. I am pleased to rise in support of it because it is going to expand and intensify the research part of lupus. NIH each year has done something toward the application of research to lupus, but now we are asking that this be a mandate of NIH to be sure that they expand research efforts, so it will make it much easier to diagnose this. This is a crippler, Mr. Speaker. It is a crippler and it is a killer. It catches women in their childbearing years, and it is time we put research into it to find out about it. There is very little known about this disease, too little known about it with its crippling effects. Since my arrival at the House in 1993, I have urged the Congress to direct NIH to mount an all-out campaign against lupus.
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