[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 15493]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     PRECISION MEDICINE INITIATIVE

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, I rise in celebratory support of H.R. 
34, the House amendment to the Senate amendment to the 21st Century 
Cures Act. As a breast cancer survivor, I am celebrating. As a 
Representative from the City of Houston, I am celebrating.
  Because of the Texas Medical Center, this plan will provide an 
ambitious action that called for $6.3 billion in mandatory funding to 
be delivered over the next 10 years to the National Institutes of 
Health. It also provides and estimated that every $1 of NIH funding 
generates about $2.21 in local economic growth and 402,000 jobs. But 
most of all, it will deal with the curing of diseases and developing 
research that will help save lives.
  In furtherance of this initiative, this legislation before us allows 
for the creation of an innovation fund through the National Institutes 
of Health so that we can design the most innovative ways of curing 
disease, of helping children, of helping seniors, of helping people who 
are dealing with incurable disease.
  The Cures Act is an act of the 21st century. It moves forward on the 
President's Precision Medicine Initiative.
  I thank Mr. Upton, Ms. DeGette, and all the Members. I serve as an 
original cosponsor. I am excited about the legislation, for it will 
save lives.

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