House Proceeding on Dec 7th, 2006 :: 1:06:16 to 1:09:49
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Speech By: Ike Skelton

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Ike Skelton: to make those wishes known personally, an advance directive can be very useful. and can remain in a drawer or with your family physician in your file so that you can be alt ease knowing you

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C. W. Bill Young: have made that -- at ease knowing you have made that kind of decision known in advance. once again i'd like to thank the gentleman from georgia, dr. phil gingrey, for bringing this resolution

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Speech By: C. W. Bill Young

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C. W. Bill Young: to the floor. and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new jersey. mr. pallone: reserve my time, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman

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C. W. Bill Young: from texas. mr. burgess: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, just a housekeeping detail i would point out that the house has previously passed this legislation. it went over to the senate.

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C. W. Bill Young: some modest changes were made. this is now passing the conforming -- the legislation that will conform to those changes. but, mr. speaker, i do not appear to have other requests for time and

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C. W. Bill Young: i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from new jersey. mr. pallone: i also urge support of the bill.

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C. W. Bill Young: i yield back my time. the speaker pro tempore: all time having been yielded back, the question is will the house both endorsed this legislation on the basis that it recognizes that a multifaceted

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C. W. Bill Young: national effort is key to making progress in curbing underage alcohol consumption. the issue of underage drinking deserves our immediate consideration and support so i urge my colleagues

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C. W. Bill Young: to support this bill for a second time. but i would particularly want to thank congresswoman roybal-allard and the other lead sponsors of this bill. i know she's here also to speak. so at

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C. W. Bill Young: this time i would reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from texas. mr. burgess: mr. speaker, i yield four

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C. W. Bill Young: minutes to the gentleman from nebraska, the sponsor of this bill. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from nebraska is recognized for four minutes. mr. osborne: thank you very much. mr. speaker,

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C. W. Bill Young: underage drinking currently costs the united states $53 billion annually, according to one study. according to the american medical association that figure should be $61 billion. and in the

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C. W. Bill Young: state of nebraska which i represent that translates to over $2,000 per youth in the state of nebraska is what the cost to the united states is. but the cost is really accounted in more

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C. W. Bill Young: than financial aspects. the centers for disease control and prevention estimates the number of underage deaths due to excessive alcohol use is roughly 4,500 a year. which is six times the death rate

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C. W. Bill Young: that we are experiencing annually in iraq. an estimated three million teenagers are full-blown alcoholics and several million more have severe drinking problems. alcohol kills six times

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C. W. Bill Young: more young people than all other illegal drugs combined. let me say that again. it kills six times what cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin, marijuana combined. and yet the federal government considerably

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C. W. Bill Young: underfunds the efforts to combat underage drinking. we currently spend $1.8 billion on hard drugs and only $71 million on underage drinking. that's a ratio of 25 to one. that needs to be directed.

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Mark E. Souder: recent studies have found that heavy exposure of the adolescent brain to alcohol may interfere with brain development. one study found that young alcohol dependent 15 and 16-year-olds who drank

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Speech By: Mark E. Souder