Political Quotes

“I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the immediate consideration of Calendar No. 516, S. 1440. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the bill by title. The assistant legislative clerk read as follows: A bill (S. 1440) to reduce preterm labor and delivery and the risk of pregnancy-related deaths and complications due to pregnancy, and to reduce infant mortality caused by prematurity. There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the bill, which had been reported from the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, with an amendment to strike all after the enacting clause and insert in lieu thereof the following: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Prematurity Research Expansion and Education for Mothers who deliver Infants Early Reauthorization Act'' or the ``PREEMIE Reauthorization Act''. SEC. 2. RESEARCH AND ACTIVITIES AT THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH. The Secretary of Health and Human Services may, subject to the availability of appropriations, expand, intensify, and coordinate the activities of the National Institutes of Health with respect to research, including transdisciplinary research, on the causes of preterm labor and delivery, tools to detect, prevent, or reduce prevalence of preterm labor and delivery, and the care and treatment of preterm infants.…”