Dusty Johnson: “I have to share a great level of frustration, and to be candid, anger at where we find ourselves this morning: unable to…”

“I have to share a great level of frustration, and to be candid, anger at where we find ourselves this morning: unable to move forward with the breast cancer legislation for which there is broad bipartisan support and little controversy. I have more than simply a public policy concern about this issue. I have a personal concern in my own family, having gone through my wife's breast cancer challenge over the past 2 years. She is doing very well. But we had a situation where she remained in the hospital for one night following surgery. She went home with the drains, and the other complications. We were able to do that all right because we don't have small children at home. We had no complications. But I know of other women in my State of South Dakota who have small children at home who cannot take a great amount of time from work, who have no extra help, who have extra complications, and who have all sorts of matters that are debilitating that cause complications. And 24 hours for many of them is simply not adequate. We have an opportunity here to correct that problem.”