Duncan Faircloth: “I would like to ask everyone to take a moment to look at the most important stamp ever issued in our history, and that…”

“I would like to ask everyone to take a moment to look at the most important stamp ever issued in our history, and that is the one we have the painting of here on the easel. I joined the U.S. Postal Service in unveiling this stamp in Chapel Hill, NC, yesterday, the day after Mother's Day, as my colleague, Senator Feinstein, did the day before in Los Angeles, CA. For the first time in U.S. history, the public will be able to play a more direct role in funding medical research and setting research priorities because of this stamp. This may look like a regular first-class postage stamp, but it is not. It is a semi-postal stamp, the first of its kind ever issued in this country. It took an Act of Congress to create it, and we did just that. It was done to raise money for breast cancer research. Incidentally, the United States is the only Nation around the world that has not issued semi-postal stamps before, but this stamp is different because part of the proceeds of this stamp will go directly to the NIH and the Department of Defense to pay for breast cancer research.”