Political Quotes

“Let me thank the gentleman from Washington for his leadership and the gentleman from California for their work and their work with my office and staff. One of the efforts that we have been working on--when I say that, Congress and individual Members--is to approach and to continue to work on the issue of breast cancer that impacts women throughout this country, and certainly women and men in the United States military. I'm very pleased in this en bloc to have an amendment by Jackson Lee that really cements the collaboration between the Department of Defense Office of Health to collaborate with the National Institutes of Health to provide resources, to identify specific genetic and molecular targets and biomarkers for triple negative breast cancer, often not heard of. I will tell you, in the course of my involvement, I've had daughters of those who lost their lives--triple negative breast cancer is a particularly negative but deadly form of breast cancer where the victim does not last very long. I've lost dear friends. And this highlighting the biomarker will bring down the cost of treatment, but more importantly will help to stem the tide of those who quickly die because there is no treatment because it accelerates so quickly and lives are lost. I also am grateful that we are beginning to make some steps.…”