[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 15]
[House]
[Page 20064]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                  AIDS

  (Ms. LEE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. LEE. Mr. Speaker, 25 years after the start of the devastating 
global HIV/AIDS pandemic, this disease is still devastating black 
America. Among young people, among women, among men, African Americans 
are most at risk of getting infected with HIV and developing AIDS and 
dying of this disease. Enough is enough.
  Over the last 5 years, this Republican-led Congress has done nothing 
to recognize this pandemic and the scope of this problem. We need to 
focus our efforts on the spread of HIV and AIDS in our prison system 
and provide routine but rigorous HIV testing, linked with treatment, to 
all incarcerated individuals, and support Congresswoman Waters' H.R. 
6038, the Stop AIDS in Prisons Act.
  We need to pass my bill, H.R. 6083, the JUSTICE Act, to allow 
condoms, yes, condoms, in our prisons and to demand accountability in 
stopping the spread of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections 
among incarcerated individuals.
  Mr. Speaker, this is a state of emergency. Let us declare it. We must 
declare it. We must declare resources to confront it. The entire 
Congress needs to support more funding for the Minority AIDS 
Initiative, beginning with a minimum of $610 million for the Minority 
AIDS Initiative. Let us declare this state of emergency.

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