[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 16]
[House]
[Page 21099]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       RYAN WHITE REAUTHORIZATION

  (Mr. QUIGLEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. QUIGLEY. Madam Speaker, welcome back. I rise today to urge my 
colleagues to act swiftly to reauthorize the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Act 
before it sunsets at the end of this month.
  Nineteen years ago, Ryan White, a young man who contracted HIV from a 
routine blood transfusion for his hemophilia, died from AIDS. Out of 
Ryan's death came life in the form of the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment 
Modernization Act, which now provides care to 500,000 victims of AIDS 
and their families each year. The Ryan White Act is considered the 
``payer of last resort,'' providing assistance to those who would 
otherwise go without care.
  Reauthorizing the Ryan White Treatment Modernization Act is 
imperative, and so is passing health care reform. While Ryan White is 
gone, we owe it to work together to swiftly pass the Ryan White Act and 
health care reform.

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