[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 16279]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   IMPORTANT ISSUES THAT NEED FUNDING

  (Mr. HASTINGS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HASTINGS. Mr. Speaker, this month all of us know that we are 
addressing the issue of breast cancer and cancer generally. I will 
proudly wear this label today for the number of people around our 
country and around the world that are suffering from cancer.
  On Monday, I participated at Nova Southeastern University with 
experts in genomics and studying this issue. I learned from them that 
only 8 percent of grants are made from the National Institutes of 
Health. That is an incredible resource for all of us, and we need to be 
about the business of increasing the National Institutes of Health's 
opportunities to go forward on breast cancer.
  The second part of my remarks this morning, Mr. Speaker, deals with 
airport workers, specifically in Fort Lauderdale and elsewhere. They 
are fighting for $15 an hour. These are the people that clean up the 
toilets at the airport in Broward County. They are the people who carry 
the people on the airplane with wheelchairs. We can at least afford $15 
an hour for them.

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