Political Quotes

“today, the Senate will vote on significant legislation--a bill that aims to make it easier for innovative medical treatments to be approved, while investing over $6 billion in medical research and combating the opioid crisis. The bill also takes an important step toward improving our mental health system, specifically by strengthening our parity laws to ensure mental health treatments are covered by insurance companies. Medical research holds tremendous promise, but our commitment to this funding has not kept pace with what is needed to make more breakthroughs with diseases like cancer and Alzheimer's. In recent years, Congress has supported increased funds for medical research, but these increases have come at the expense of other important domestic programs. We can and should do more. In October, Vice President Biden joined me in Vermont to discuss the future of cancer treatment. We learned that we are on the cusp of so many developments in fighting the disease, but that more research is needed to get there. This bill contains $1.8 billion dedicated to Vice President Biden's cancer moonshot and another $1.4 billion in precision medicine to help target treatments to individual patients. It also includes $1.5 billion for President Obama's BRAIN Initiative, to expand brain mapping technologies that help scientists understand brain disorders and diseases affecting the central nervous system.…”