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21st Century Cures Act

Floor Speech

Date: July 9, 2015
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Science Health and Health Care

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Mr. BUCSHON. Mr. Chairman, I rise today in support of 21st Century Cures, an initiative that gives hope to patients and families who have battled or who will battle one of the 10,000 diseases with no known cures, like my good friend and mayor of Jasper, Indiana, Terry Seitz, who lost his wife and the mother of their two daughters, Ann Seitz, to ALS 5 years ago on Thanksgiving Day, the family's favorite holiday.

As Mayor Seitz put it, 21st Century Cures gives patients and their families the opportunity for hope and the ability to cope. These two things mean the world to those fighting a rare disease who face so much uncertainty about what the future may hold. 21st Century Cures turns hopelessness into hope.

Mr. Chairman, we have a real opportunity today to improve the lives of these patients across the country, and we need to seize it.

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