Political Quotes

“it was good to get back home to Texas over the weekend and on Columbus Day. I had a chance to travel to far West Texas, out to El Paso, TX, and catch up with some of my friends and constituents there on some important issues they care an awful lot about. While we in Washington have been focused on Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court for the last 90 days or so, a lot of other important things have been happening back in Texas and around the country. For example, on August 1, Dr. Jim Allison, affiliated with the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, won the Nobel Prize in medicine, along with a researcher from Japan. This is really important work. It was a culmination of 25 years of effort, and I am sure something Jim would have never even dreamed of as he grew up in the small town of Alice, TX, 45 minutes from Corpus Christi. He has come a long way since then. We are very proud of him, and today we send our congratulations to Dr. Allison and to the entire MD Anderson team on a tremendous accomplishment. Dr. Allison developed a new way to treat cancer using T cells. His method unleashes a patient's immune system to attack tumors. In other words, it is your own immune system that is triggered to attack the tumors that are attacking the patient. This is called immune checkpoint therapy. It has resulted in the development of numerous drugs that have the potential to save lives.…”