[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12849]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          SUPPORT NIH FUNDING

  (Mr. GARCIA asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GARCIA. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to support funding for the 
National Institutes of Health and to stop the mindless and automatic 
sequestration cuts.
  Earlier this month, I met with Carlos Santos and James Hodge, two 
young men from Florida. We talked about their sisters, who suffer from 
cystic fibrosis, and how potential budget cuts to the NIH will 
drastically affect their lives.
  Cystic fibrosis is a chronic disease with no cure. While discoveries 
from NIH over the past 30 years have helped double the life expectancy 
of those with cystic fibrosis, there is much more we can do, including 
finding a cure for this disease in our lifetime.
  Because of NIH's groundbreaking research into this disease and 
others, I ask my colleagues to support funding for NIH. We must secure 
our Nation's future by making smart investments in our Nation's health.

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