Joe Pitts: “I am very pleased to support this very important bipartisan legislation. I urge all Members to do so, and I yield back…”

H.R. 1807, the Sickle Cell Disease Research, Surveillance, Prevention, and Treatment Act of 2015, sponsored by Rep. Danny Davis (IL) and Rep. Michael Burgess (TX) reauthorizes a sickle cell disease demonstration program.

We will hear from witnesses on ways to address our trauma and emergency medical systems.

I thank my colleague, Rep. Pete Olson, for sponsoring this important legislation which will be welcome news for the over 100,000,000 people afflicted with diabetes or pre-diabetes.

if they expanded Medicaid 50,000 of my constituents would have Medicaid, if the state expanded it.