Political Quotes

“This bill has been a bipartisan bill. It has got 95 Republicans and 125 Democrats. GINA passed the Education and Labor Committee, Energy and Commerce Committee and the Ways and Means Committee by voice vote. I think that GINA is needed to maintain high-quality genetic research and clinical trials at NIH. It passed the Senate last year 98-0, and the last Congress was a strong SAP for them, so when this goes to conference we will see what happens this year. Let me just say that Newt Gingrich said to not have this bill is to cripple our ability to save lives. ``Without protection from genetic discrimination, we risk missing out on the promise of personalized medicine. But if we apply time-honored principles of fairness and justice to the genome era, we can grant the American public the gift of better informed patients, better equipped providers, an enhanced biotech industry, improved health and lives saved. ``Let's not withhold this gift any longer. Let's empower all Americans to embrace the possibilities of personalized medicine for better health, and let's commend the forward-thinking bipartisanship of the 110th Congress that has brought us to the threshold of a world where Americans can embrace personalized medicine without fear.”