[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 17]
[Senate]
[Page 23528]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                             WORLD MRSA DAY

  Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate 
proceed to the immediate consideration of S. Res. 301, submitted 
earlier today.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the resolution by title.
  The bill clerk read as follows:

       A bill (S. Res. 301) designating October 2, 2009, as 
     ``World MRSA Day.''

  There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the 
resolution.
  Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the 
resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, the motions to 
reconsider be laid upon the table, with no intervening action or 
debate, and any statements related to the resolution be printed in the 
Record.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The resolution (S. Res. 301) was agreed to.
  The preamble was agreed to.
  The resolution, with its preamble, reads as follows:

                              S. Res. 301

       Whereas methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) 
     causes deadly infections in patients that are receiving 
     treatment in health care facilities and affects numerous 
     individuals within our Nation's communities;
       Whereas the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has 
     estimated that hospital-acquired MRSA infections killed more 
     than 19,000 individuals in the United States in 2006;
       Whereas patient and consumer advocacy organizations around 
     the world are lending their voices to a call for leadership 
     and an international commitment to preventing and eradicating 
     MRSA, a disease that has reached pandemic levels and is 
     spreading at an alarming rate;
       Whereas patient and consumer advocacy organizations are 
     calling upon health care officials and government leaders to 
     step up and take a more comprehensive approach to stopping 
     MRSA through implementation of a broad and proactive 
     prevention program;
       Whereas the MRSA Survivors Network, the first consumer 
     organization in the United States to raise awareness 
     concerning the MRSA epidemic and other such multi-drug 
     resistant health care-acquired infections, has announced that 
     October 2, 2009, has been designated as ``World MRSA Day'', 
     which shall be commemorated annually on such date; and
       Whereas the MRSA Survivors Network has also designated the 
     month of October as ``World MRSA Awareness Month'' in order 
     to call attention to this worldwide epidemic: Now, therefore, 
     be it
       Resolved, That the Senate designates October 2, 2009, as 
     ``World MRSA Day''.

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