Political Quotes

“My thanks, again, to the gentleman from Oregon (Mr. Walden) and the others who have spoken on behalf of this, including Congressman Ruppersberger, who has been, as he indicated, a part of this effort for a while. And that while goes all the way back to the other reason that I am here today, and that is my friend of 42 years and a Member of this body for 23 years, the late Elijah Cummings, who originally introduced this bill before his death, and a commitment that I made to he and to others long ago that, working outside of the Congress, I would be supportive of him. But now that I am inside, I wanted to make sure that I got unanimous consent from this body, as I did a month or so back, to be able to assume the leadership of this bill, its sponsorship, and to move it forward, and we have been doing all that we could to get to this point. Again, Mr. Speaker, I would be remiss if I did not thank Mr. Pallone and Mr. Walden for their efforts. Let me, if I might, just say a couple of things, Mr. Speaker. It has been long recognized that the burden of cancer is not equal and not equivalent among different racial and ethnic groups in our society. In fact, there is a fourfold increase, or disparity, in the number of Black people diagnosed with cancer in this country as compared with the proportion of Black people participating in clinical trials. The gentleman from Oregon (Mr.…”