Political Quotes

“I further ask unanimous consent that the bill be considered read a third time and passed and the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table, with no intervening action or debate. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The bill (S. 2231) was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, was read the third time, and passed, as follows: S. 2231 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Maternal and Child Health Stillbirth Prevention Act''. SEC. 2. FINDINGS. Congress finds the following: (1) According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-- (A) in the United States, 1 in 175 births are affected by stillbirth each year amounting to approximately 21,000 stillbirths annually; (B) of the 20,854 reported stillbirths in 2020, over 5,000 were experienced by Black mothers; (C) the number of stillbirths each year is greater than the number of babies that die during the first year of life; (D) annual stillbirths are more than ten times the number of annual deaths due to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS); (E) stillbirth occurs across all demographics and in otherwise healthy pregnancies.…”