[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 44 (Monday, April 10, 2000)]
[House]
[Page H1962]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                BREAST AND CERVICAL CANCER TREATMENT ACT

  (Mrs. MORELLA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. MORELLA. Mr. Speaker, as you know, on May 14, we will celebrate 
Mother's Day. To honor that day, I am pleased that the leadership has 
agreed to schedule a vote on H.R. 1070, which is the Breast and 
Cervical Cancer Treatment Act.
  This legislation will provide treatment for low-income, uninsured 
working women who are diagnosed with breast or cervical cancer. H.R. 
1070 will give States the option of providing Medicaid coverage for 
these women if they are screened by the CDC's early detection program 
and found to have cancer, that is, the Centers for Disease Control. The 
program now provides screening for breast and cervical cancer, but can 
you believe it does not provide for treatment? H.R. 1070 will correct 
this. If we offer this screening, we must offer the treatment.
  Mr. Speaker, the funding for H.R. 1070 is included in the budget 
resolution that the House recently passed. It enjoys strong bipartisan 
support. Let us do the right thing.
  In honor of Mother's Day, let us pass H.R. 1070.

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