Lois Capps: “I rise today to join all our colleagues in the House in honoring Lance Armstrong for his incredible victory in this…”

“I rise today to join all our colleagues in the House in honoring Lance Armstrong for his incredible victory in this year's Tour de France. Like millions of other Americans and fans around the globe, I followed Lance's journey to Paris with great enthusiasm. Lance Armstrong is only the second American to win the prestigious Tour de France since its inception in 1903. This is a race covering over 2,000 miles of French countryside over a 3-week period. He is the first American to win the Tour on an American team, the United States Postal Service team, and as we have heard, this win is a tribute to another victory as well for Lance and for us all, a victory over cancer. Lance did not do this alone. It was the incredible hard work of his teammates that insured Lance would arrive in Paris wearing the Yellow Jersey, and it is going to take the same teamwork to find a cure for the devastating disease we call cancer. We in Congress must do all we can to help in this effort for just as Lance's victory on his bike took teamwork, the fight against cancer will take the same hard effort. Lance Armstrong's comeback from cancer is from truly a remarkable story. Less than 3 years ago, he was diagnosed with testicular cancer and given less than a 50 percent chance of survival much less ever riding a bicycle again. Yet he came back to make what is one of the most incredible comebacks in the history of sport.”