House Proceeding on May 1st, 2008 :: 1:30:02 to 1:50:02
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Speech By: Fortney Pete Stark

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Fortney Pete Stark: h.res. 1156 and ask for its immediate consideration. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the resolution. the clerk: house resolution 1156. resolved, that upon adoption of this resolution

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Fred Upton: it shall be in order to take from the speaker's table the bill h.r. 493 to prohibit discrimination on the basis of genetic information with respect to health insurance and employment, with the senate

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Speech By: Fred Upton

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Fred Upton: amendment thereto, and to consider in the house, without intervention of any point of order except those arising under clause 10 of rule 21, a motion offered by the chairman of the committee on education

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Fred Upton: and labor or his designee that the house concur in the senate amendment. the senate amendment and the motion shall be considered as read. the motion shall be debatable for one hour, with 20 minutes equally

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Fred Upton: divided and controlled by the chairman and ranking minority member of the committee on education and labor, 20 minutes equally divided and controlled by the chairman and ranking minority member of

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Fred Upton: the committee energy and commerce, and 20 minutes equally divided and controlled by the chairman and ranking minority member of the committeeon ways and means. the previous question shall be considered

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Fred Upton: as ordered on the motion to its adoption without intervening motion. section 2. during consideration of the motion to concur pursuant to this resolution, notwithstanding the operation of the previous

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Fred Upton: question, the chair may postpone further consideration of the motion to such time as may be designated by the speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from new york is recognized for one

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Fred Upton: hour. ms. slaughter: thank you, madam speaker. for the purpose of debate only, i yield the customary 30 minutes to the gentleman from texas, mr. sessions. all time yielded during consideration

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Fred Upton: of the rule is for debate only. i yield myself such time as i may consume. i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks on house

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Fred Upton: resolution 1156. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentlewoman from new york is recognized. ms. slaughter: thank you, madam speaker. h.res. 1156 provides for consideration of

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Fred Upton: the senate amendment to h.r. 493, the jen -- the genetic information nondiscrimination act. it is controlled by the education of labor, the committee on ways and means. madam speaker, thetory of humanity

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Fred Upton: is defined by achievements that later is looked upon as having been impacted. the mapping out of the human genome, a discovery that opened the door of possibility and presents an opportunity

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Fred Upton: to advance the human race. the breakthrough in the field of genetics joins the ranks of moment uts discoveries that have -- moment us discoveries that have changed science. like the discovery

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Fred Upton: of the polio vaccine so many years ago. last week, senator kennedy said on the senate floor, he noted the mapping of the human genome may well affect the 21st century as profoundly as the invention

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Fred Upton: of the computer or the splitting of the atom affected the 20th century. however, madam speaker, this does not dramatically lead to these extraordinary breakthroughs. in order to reap the benefits,

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Allyson Y. Schwartz: we must make sure that our social policy keeps pace with the advancement of our science. and that is precisely why i rise today in support of the genetic information nondiscrimination act.

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Speech By: Allyson Y. Schwartz

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Allyson Y. Schwartz: it has been 13 years in the making, and i'm pleased that the house of representatives is once again considering the bill today. hopefully for the last time so we may send it to the president

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Allyson Y. Schwartz: to sign into law. while i'm pleased we're taking it up, i'm saddened that so much time has been lost and that the march toward progress and discovery has been slowed. the genetic information nondiscrimination

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Allyson Y. Schwartz: act is the culmination of a broad and bipartisan effort to prohibit the improper use of genetic information in work force and health insurance decisions. it prohibits group health plans and health

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Allyson Y. Schwartz: insurance from denying compling to healthy individuals or charging higher premiums based solely on a genetic predisposition to maybe develop a disease in the future. furthermore, it bars

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Allyson Y. Schwartz: employers from using one's genetic information from making hiring, firing, job placement decisions. this bill has been described as the first civil rights legislation of the 21st century. i think

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Allyson Y. Schwartz: that assessment is correct because with the exception of trauma, everything that happens to a person's body has a genetic component. from the color of our eyes to our height to illnesses and disorders,

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Allyson Y. Schwartz: we are susceptible to everything happens because of our genes. no one, not a single living human being, has perfect genes. in fact, each one of us is estimated to be genetically predisposed

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Allyson Y. Schwartz: between five and 30 serious disorders. the good news is since the sequences of the human genome was completed in april, 2003, thanks to dr. francis collins, who i'm happy to say is in the

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Allyson Y. Schwartz: gallery today, researchers have identified genetic markers for a variety of chronic health conditions that increase the potential of early treatment and prevention of genetic-based diseases.

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Dave Camp: there are already dramatic tests for diseases. and hundreds more are under development. let me mention just two of them. just this week, we heard from newspapers that in london and work that

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Speech By: Dave Camp

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Dave Camp: is being done in pittsburgh, i believe the univsity of pennsylvania, has restored some eyesight to people who were disposed to a genetic disease that harmed their vision as children. to be able to restore

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Dave Camp: eyesight is something none of us ever dreamed of being able to do, but by injecting genetic material into the back of the eye behind the retina they have received some sight. they believe

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Dave Camp: that once they are able to do this in younger children that -- and be able to increase the dose that the success rate will be extremely high, and that in itself is such good news. also,

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Dave Camp: yesterday "the new york times" reported that the gene has been isolated for osteoporosis and fragile bones. i remember when fighting for the office of women's health, the statistic is that we spent

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Dave Camp: between $20 billion and $30 billion a year -- this was years ago, 10 and 15 -- to treat osteoporosis. we had no treatment for it. we tried best we could. we have over time achieved some

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Dave Camp: treatments for osteoporosis. but think what would happen if once we find that gene we are able to manipulate that gene or change it and prevent osteoporosis altogether. the great thing about this

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Dave Camp: science is the limitless possibility to cure conditions -- the human conditions without long hospital stays, without invasive surgeries and possibilities there for an entirely new way for

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Dave Camp: us to provide health care. . consider these tests we know can tell a woman if she has a family history of breast cancer if she has the genetic predisposition. for at least the last 10 years

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Carol Shea-Porter: i have been told by women who are in that condition and also by their physicians that they have recommended to them that until a bill such as the one we are passing today becomes law in this

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Carol Shea-Porter: country, they should not put at risk their health insurance, many of them the sole provider for health insurance for their families, or their jobs. we believe the estimates are that about 22%

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Carol Shea-Porter: of americans have already been discriminated against. we have numerous cases of people who lost their jobs. the most important thing to show what rank discrimination that has been is that having

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Carol Shea-Porter: the gene is only predictive. it does not say you are doomed to have it. indeed it could be 20 or 30 years away. if at all. to deny persons health insurance and employment on that kind of proposition