[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 75 (Monday, May 19, 2014)]
[House]
[Page H4460]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         LUPUS AWARENESS MONTH

  (Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Mr. Speaker, I am proud to join my colleagues this 
month of May to observe Lupus Awareness Month, a time where we work to 
increase public understanding of this cruel mystery.
  Affecting approximately 28,000 people in my south Florida community 
and almost 1.5 million Americans nationwide, lupus is a tragically 
misunderstood disease. With symptoms that imitate many other illnesses, 
lupus is extremely difficult to diagnose and usually develops anywhere 
between age 15 and 44. Of those who are diagnosed, Mr. Speaker, 90 
percent are women, and it impacts minorities two to three times more 
than Caucasians.
  Along with my fellow cochairs of the Congressional Lupus Caucus--Tom 
Rooney, Bill Keating, and Jim Moran--I am committed to increasing 
awareness about lupus and finally putting an end to this terrible 
disease.

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