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Eliot L. Engel: remaining. mrs. capps: at this time it's my pleasure to acknowledge and yield to the congressman from new york, mr. engel, 2 1/2 minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york is recognized for 2 1/2 minutes. mr. engel: thank you, mr. speaker. i want to thank my colleague from the health subcommittee and energy and commerce subcommittee, lois capps, who is a leader on issues like this.

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Eliot L. Engel: i want to commend debbie gentlewoman from florida, for her courage and in talking personally, as well as congresswoman sue myrick for speaking personally. this is dazz that affects so many americans and their families personally. i rise in strong support of

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Eliot L. Engel: and consternation nationwide. i can say quite frankly that i was extremely concerned that news reports related screenings would cause some women in their 40's to no longer get mammograms annually for breast cancer. i think what was announced was a mistake. this would really be a travesty if women were prevented from

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Eliot L. Engel: although these tools arnot perfect they the american medical association, susan b. komen for t mammograms starting at 40, not 50. they never meant to sen message that women should not

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Eliot L. Engel: her work all year guided by her personal experience to improve education and awareness and the benefits of breast cancer screeling screening. the -- cancer screenings.

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Mike Rogers: has made a recommendation based on quality of year lives and cost, not good science, not between 40 and 49 need not get mammograms. and you say, listen, that doesn't mean rationing, it doesn't anything, it doesn't have a weight at all. but guess what, the health care

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Mike Rogers: offered on or after the first day of year one as an exchange participating health care plan. pretty fancy washington speak. let me tell you what it means. in another section of the bill about 1,000 pages later, a health plan is prohibited from offering coverage for benefits not included in the essential benefits package.

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Mike Rogers: all recommendations of the preventive services task force and the task force preventive services day before the date or enactment of this act and shall they must use that in the calculation of benefits. guess what? 47,000 women who are under the

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Mike Rogers: will die because of this bill, than we lost men in the korean war? oh, you think, scare tactics. no, it's the bill. you know what, you can't read it on page 1 or 2. you have to keep going back and forth. in 2,000 pages to understand the full impact of what will happen to wom who are 40 to 49 years old. you did it in your bill.

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Mike Rogers: mr. rogers: i am gog to plead with you. please, read the bill. not just 1 to 2,000. and understand its full impact. and you say it won't happen in america. guess what, this task force recommendations resulted on december 2 for california prohibiting low-income women under the age of receiving mammograms. it's happening today.

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Lois Capps: coverage other than what the government says they can get. and guess what, mammograms don't qualify for women 40 to 49. please, think of those women and those familie the speaker pro tempore: the chaireminds members that they are to address their comments to the chair. the gentlelady from california. mrs. capps: thank you, mr.

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Lois Capps: speaker. i would remind my colleagues that at the hearing two weeks ago at the energy and commerce committee, the breast cancer stake holders were asked a simple question. would h.r. 3962, the health reform bill, help women with breast cancer? every witness on that panel, including the american cancer society, komen, the national breast cancer coalition, the american college of physicians,

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Jerrold Nadler: and at this point i am very pleased to yield two minutes to my colleague and big supporter of the breast cancer jerry nadler. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york is recognized. mr. nadler: i thank the gentlewoman for yielding. mr. speaker, i rise today in support of the resolution offered by our colleague, representative wasserman

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Jerrold Nadler: schultz. with this solution, which has the -- should have the ful support of the house, would be on record with our commitment not to allow women over 40 to go without the life-saving screening tests currently available to address breast cancer at early stages. and we will have continued research into better tests so that no woman will face a death

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Jerrold Nadler: even before the recommendations of the task force, and having nothing to do with the recommendations of the task force, many insurance company today deny coverage for screening mammograms to women over 40. . to do -- deal with this be problem, we should pass a bill which i introduced which would legally mandate that any

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Jerrold Nadler: mammography coverage to women over 40 and m.r.i.'s to women who need it because they have a particular genetic or other family history indicating a specific susceptibility to breast cancer. i ask my colleagues to show

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Phil Gingrey: colleagues to support it. and i am sure if we have a recorded vote, the vet will be 100% in favor -- vote will be 100% in favor of this resolution. mr. speaker, as my colleague from tennessee, mrs. blackburn, and my colleague from michigan, mr. rogers, both members of the energy and commerce committee, both -- as well as myself at

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Phil Gingrey: to recommend very strongly that women in their 40's continue to be screened, to have mammogram screening, maybe even digital mammogram screening because they are at high risk. mr. speaker, as our colleagues have pointed out, the two -- in our body, victims o cancer, god forbid if they had

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Phil Gingrey: will be passed in this bill, in the senate version, when this united states preventive services task force will no longer be an making recommendations, they will be making law. they will be iss if a physicalian decides my patient's in their 40's, i'm going to go ahead and order a mammogram anyway. that mammogram is suspicious

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Phil Gingrey: i say that i stand here commending representative debbie wasserman schultz and this resolution. i'm in favor of it. but i would also recommend that my colleagues on the democratic side of the aisle instruct their conferees if this bill, this massive health care reform bill, goes to conference. and take this resolution with them and say, look, this is our concerns.

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Joe Donnelly: i thank my colleagues on this side of the aisle for absolutely right as they point out in this legislation what the danger is. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentlewoman from california. mrs. capps: mr. speaker, i'm very pleased at this point to yield to our colleague from indiana, mr. donlly, one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from indiana is recognized for one minute.

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Joe Donnelly: mr. donnelly: thank you, mr. speaker. i want to support the resolution and my colleague, debbie wasserman schultz. and support the importance of annual mammograms for women age 40 to 49. i, unfortunately, lost my mom to breast cancer when she was very young and when i was very young. these there's nothing more important

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Leonard Lance: so that we thank you, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yi lance of his time. the gentlewoman from tennessee. mrs. blackburn: thank you, mr. speaker. at this d a halfo the gentleman from new jersey, mr. lance the speaker p gentleman from new jery is recognized for a minute and a half. mr. lance: mr. speaker, i rise today in support of the resolution offered by the

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Leonard Lance: gentlewoman from florida. i thank the gentlewoman from tennessee for her leadership on this issue as well. i recently met with new jersey cancer survivors, cancer care advocates from the susan g. komen for the cure in new jersey, and medical professionals at the steeples chase cancer certainty,

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Leonard Lance: my mother died of breast cancer when my twin brother and which is it. her cancer was diagnosed when she was 47. most disappointing about the task force conclusions is the fact that they come on the

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published by the american cancer society indicating a large decline in breast cancer deaths in won under 50. breast cancer continues to be the most common form of cancer in women. we should be promoting a federal health policy of encouraging not discouraging mammography screening and self-examination for women 40 to 49 years of age.

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this issue. an issue that defends women across the united states and advocates for their health and well-being. breast cancer is a real caninger to women and their families. -- real dangetory women and their families of the it is -- danger to women and their families. it is not an adversary to be underestimated. more than 40,000 women will

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choose between a lump extommie and masectomy. she shade shared her journal with a newspaper. she writes, the words ring out unlike anything i have ever experienced before. i find no earning, just feel numb. fum downed and questioning how, when. it was just a routine mammogram. sue survive

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the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady yields back. the gentlewoman from tennessee. mrs. blackburn: at this time i yield a minute and a half to our ranking member ros-lehtinen, from florida. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from florida is recognized for a minute and a half. ms. ros-lehtinen: i thank my good friend r the time. i strongly support the resolution before us, mr.

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Ileana Ros-Lehtinen: and more likely, we also know someone who was survived breast cancer. and they have survived breast cancer due to routine screening and early screening and screening for young women. we must remain vigilant in our efforts to educate, to diagnose, and to treat. let us make sure that our

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Lois Capps: screenings for young women, screening that could save their lives. thank you, my good friend from tennessee, and i'd you back my remainder of the time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady yields back. the gentlewoman from california. mrs. capps: mr. speaker, may i inquire again the time that remains? the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from california has