RUSS CARNAHAN: “I want to thank the gentlelady from California for her leadership and work on this important legislation, supporting the…”

“I want to thank the gentlelady from California for her leadership and work on this important legislation, supporting the MS Awareness Week. Every week, around 200 people are diagnosed in this country with MS; and, indeed, there's been a spike in diagnoses among our military. That is one of the reasons the past several years we have been able to fight for and obtain funding through the Department of Defense congressionally directed research program. We also have worked with addressing the issue in terms of creating the national registry, so we can help track this difficult disease that has eluded a cure for so long. I am proud to serve as cochair of the Congressional MS Caucus along with my colleague here today, Michael Burgess. He has been a good partner in promoting this. The MS Caucus is a bipartisan group of a 127 Members of this House actively engaged in discussions about access to quality health care, raising awareness, promoting education, and increasing MS research. I want to urge my colleagues here today to not just support this resolution, but if you're not already a member of the MS Caucus, I urge you to join us.”