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“I thank the gentleman. Mr. Speaker, I think everybody has been thanked who should be thanked, but I certainly want to thank Mr. Upton for all of his work and Mr. Pallone for his time and his work and Ms. DeGette. I also want to thank Senator Roger Wicker, who worked on a bill that is incorporated into this bill that Congressman Duncan and I sponsored, called the EUREKA Act, which will incentivize and reward research on diseases for which there is not great public-private partnerships but for which there is a great handicap and problem for the American public because of the particular disease. It will reward successful treatments through a competition, which I think is a great way to go about encouraging research and then paying for it. Roger Wicker, I think, came up with the idea, and I sponsored it with John Duncan, and it is included in the bill. It was originally aimed at Alzheimer's. It is now for other diseases, but Alzheimer's is one of them. Alzheimer's is a disease that is going to have a particularly crippling effect on our country economically in the future. Beyond that, it will affect many of us, and it will affect our pocketbooks; so it is important that this bill goes after Alzheimer's and that it deals with the opioid crisis, which is great in my State and across the country. It works against all diseases and it encourages moneys in the National Institutes of Health.…”