[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 140 (Thursday, October 8, 1998)]
[Senate]
[Pages S11965-S11966]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        PROSTATE CANCER RESEARCH

  Mr. COVERDELL. Mr. President, I rise today to express my support for 
prostate cancer research, and to thank Senator Stevens and my other 
colleagues for their leadership on this important issue. While I am 
pleased with the strides this Congress has made in funding research at 
the National Institutes of Health (NIH), I share the concern that the 
allocation of NIH funds may be done in a manner disproportionate to a 
disease's severity and occurrence. I understand that prostate cancer 
research is one of those areas. Without discounting the NIH's other 
meritorious pursuits, I nevertheless wish to offer my support for 
assuring a larger allocation of NIH funding to prostate cancer 
research. It is my hope

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that as the appropriations process continues, the negotiators will give 
fair and appropriate consideration to the Senate's $175 million earmark 
for prostate cancer research.

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