[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 98 (Wednesday, June 12, 2019)]
[House]
[Page H4445]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





           CONTINUE FEDERAL FUNDING FOR ALZHEIMER'S RESEARCH

  (Mr. WOODALL asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WOODALL. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to speak on a topic that I 
think is important to everyone in this institution. As most of my 
colleagues know, June is National Alzheimer's and Brain Awareness 
Month.
  Mr. Speaker, if Members have been fortunate enough that they have not 
had a family member affected, then I hope they remain fortunate in that 
way because statistics suggest that each and every one of us is going 
to have a family member who is affected by Alzheimer's or brain health 
in one way or another.
  The bill we are voting on today is our opportunity to fund that 
research. If Members have been following Alzheimer's research over the 
past 12 months, then they know it has been a disappointing 12 months 
not because we haven't been funding it properly--we have--and not 
because the research has not been going on--it has--but because things 
we thought were so promising have turned out not to be so. We are 
starting over again in a lot of different ways.
  Mr. Speaker, if there is one thing I believe the American people can 
count on amidst all the partisan strife is the way that we come 
together to fund that fundamental health research that only the Federal 
Government can stand behind and succeed in.
  I thank my colleagues on both sides of the aisle for their support of 
those accounts thus far. I hope that as we continue this appropriations 
season, that will continue as well.

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