[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 9]
[House]
[Pages 13096-13097]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




             PRAISING EOSINOPHIL AWARENESS WEEK RESOLUTION

  (Mrs. BOYDA of Kansas asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mrs. BOYDA of Kansas. Mr. Speaker, last month my congressional office 
was flooded with letters asking me to cosponsor the National Eosinophil 
Awareness Week Resolution. All of these heartfelt notes, as it turned 
out, were authored by the family and friends of an 11-year-old girl who 
lives in my district, Jessica Seidel. Jessica and her mother are here 
with us today.
  Jessica suffers from a rare eosinophil disorder that causes her body 
to mistake common proteins as foreign bodies. The disorder makes 
Jessica's life very hard. Only last week, she had to move out of her 
house because her basement flooded, rendering the house unliveable for 
her.
  Despite these challenges, Jessica remains a remarkable girl. She is 
visiting me here in Washington today, and I am impressed by her poise 
and her courage. I am very pleased that on Monday, the House 
unanimously approved the Eosinophil Awareness Week Resolution. Our vote 
was meaningful and it was important, not only to Jessica and her family 
and friends, but to every sufferer of an eosinophilic disorder across 
the United States.

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