Fred Upton: “This bill, ARPA-H, can provide the breakthroughs necessary to find cures for those diseases. The President has already…”

“This bill, ARPA-H, can provide the breakthroughs necessary to find cures for those diseases. The President has already signed $1 billion for this program into law. So what we need now is bipartisan authorization to complete the work. This bill certainly accomplishes that goal. Mr. Speaker, I urge all of my colleagues, like we did before, to vote for this bill a little bit later this afternoon. Again, I just want to commend our great staff. As our leader, Congresswoman Rodgers, said: We have the best staff there is. Is there any objection to that? Hearing none--sorry, Ways and Means; sorry appropriators. We do. We are the Energy and Commerce Committee, and we are going to find a cure for these diseases. This bill is a step in that direction.”