Political Quotes

“Friday afternoon of last week, this House passed what may well be the most important piece of legislation that will be passed in our lifetimes. I am talking about H.R. 6, the 21st Century Cures Act. This is legislation that is to improve and enhance the discovery, development, and delivery of new medicines, new devices, lifesaving efforts that can bend the course of someone who is trapped right now in an intractable disease. We all know what they are: Alzheimer's, diabetes, recalcitrant cancers, heart disease. What if we were to be able to solve one of these riddles? What a boon that would be to the Federal budget because, as we can see, in the outyears of expenses for health care, it is nothing but up. In May of 2012, Glen Campbell and his family came to the Library of Congress. They came and testified before the Senate, and they gave a very moving presentation on why it was important to deal with diseases such as Alzheimer's. In fact, that night, when Glen Campbell gave a concert at the Library of Congress--you can see him here with his daughter Ashley as they were playing on stage--it was a wonderful reminder just what is at stake here. What if we could provide one more time for a daughter to smile at her father because we have found, finally, the cure for this intractable disease? It is time to get the Senate to move and get this done. ____________________”