[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 56 (Tuesday, May 9, 2000)]
[House]
[Pages H2737-H2738]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                LET US BEGIN ANEW THE WAR AGAINST CANCER

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a previous order of the House, the 
gentleman from California (Mr. Horn) is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Mr. HORN. Mr. Speaker, in 1990, Congress passed and President Bush 
signed into law the Breast and Cervical Cancer Mortality Prevention 
Act, creating the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection 
Program.
  This program allows States to work with the Center for Disease 
Control and Prevention to provide screening services for breast and 
cervical cancer for low-income or health insurance for uninsured women.
  Unfortunately, this legislation did not provide for access to 
treatment once a woman screened through the program was diagnosed with 
this devastating breast and cervical cancer. What a heartbreaking 
irony.
  Common sense tells us there are two steps to fighting breast cancer: 
detection and treatment.

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  The Breast and Cervical Cancer Prevention and Treatment Act of 2000 
will fill the critical void left by the 1990 law. This bill will 
provide Medicaid coverage to uninsured women who have been screened and 
diagnosed with breast cancer through the Center for Disease Control 
Program.
  As Mother's Day approaches, passage of the Breast and Cervical Cancer 
Prevention and Treatment Act of 2000 is a fitting tribute to all our 
mothers, sisters, wives, and daughters.
  As a cosponsor of this legislation and a long-time supporter of 
breast cancer research, I am so delighted to lend my support to this 
important bill. I encourage all of my colleagues to do the same.

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