[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 18]
[House]
[Page 24326]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    SUSAN G. KOMEN RACE FOR THE CURE

  (Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.
  Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Saturday, October 17, at Bayfront Park in Miami, in 
my congressional district, we will be having the 14th Annual Miami/Fort 
Lauderdale Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure. Since its inception in 
1996, the Miami/Fort Lauderdale Race for the Cure has raised more than 
$4.5 million and has reached hundreds of thousands of people through 
educational outreach and grassroots efforts.
  Volunteers are dedicated to ending breast cancer by making it a 
nonlife-threatening disease through community grants to support 
research, education, screening, and treatment.
  More than 465,000 die from this disease every year, Mr. Speaker. But 
there are more than 2.5 million breast cancer survivors alive in the 
U.S. today, the largest group of all cancer survivors.
  The Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure helps them fight the disease 
through breast cancer survivors networks. Thanks to this Race for the 
Cure, we are making great strides toward a world without breast cancer.
  I encourage all in our community in south Florida to participate on 
Saturday, October 17, at Bayfront Park in Miami, to fight breast 
cancer.

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