[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 6 (Thursday, January 11, 2007)]
[House]
[Page H349]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                HELPING KEEP CHILDREN FREE FROM DISEASE

  (Ms. SHEA-PORTER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Ms. SHEA-PORTER. Mr. Speaker, I am the parent of two children with 
asthma, and my husband has asthma also. When my children were young, I 
spent many hours beside their bed helping them to breathe with 
machines, giving them medicine that had side effects that were very 
unpleasant and kept both my children and myself up. We had a great deal 
of worry in those early years.
  It is my great hope that science will find a cure. I ask all of my 
colleagues to reach out and help my children and the children of 
America to be free of these diseases.

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