[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 8]
[House]
[Pages 11383-11384]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       CURES FOR THE 21ST CENTURY

  (Mr. BURGESS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BURGESS. Mr. Speaker, Friday afternoon of last week, this House 
passed what may well be the most important piece of legislation that 
will be passed in our lifetimes. I am talking about H.R. 6, the 21st 
Century Cures Act.
  This is legislation that is to improve and enhance the discovery, 
development, and delivery of new medicines, new devices, lifesaving 
efforts that can bend the course of someone who is trapped right now in 
an intractable disease. We all know what they are: Alzheimer's, 
diabetes, recalcitrant cancers, heart disease.
  What if we were to be able to solve one of these riddles? What a boon 
that would be to the Federal budget because, as we can see, in the 
outyears of expenses for health care, it is nothing but up.
  In May of 2012, Glen Campbell and his family came to the Library of 
Congress. They came and testified before

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the Senate, and they gave a very moving presentation on why it was 
important to deal with diseases such as Alzheimer's. In fact, that 
night, when Glen Campbell gave a concert at the Library of Congress--
you can see him here with his daughter Ashley as they were playing on 
stage--it was a wonderful reminder just what is at stake here.
  What if we could provide one more time for a daughter to smile at her 
father because we have found, finally, the cure for this intractable 
disease?
  It is time to get the Senate to move and get this done.

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