House Proceeding on Oct 28th, 2009 :: 1:05:10 to 1:07:30
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Frank A. LoBiondo: of met stattist breast cancer, protect themselves through regular checkups and screenings. i strongly urge my colleagues to support this resolution and i thank you an the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady yields back the balance of her time. the gentleman from -- the gentlelady from north carolina. mrs. myrick: yes, i would at this time am very pleased to yield so much time as he may

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Speech By: Frank A. LoBiondo

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Frank A. LoBiondo: consume to the other sponsor of the legislation, mr. lobiondo from new jersey. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. lobiondo: thank you, mr. speaker. and thank you, congresswoman myrick, and thanks to congressman pallone and congresswoman delauro for their advocacy on this very important issue. i rise in very strong support of the resolution designating

1:05:49 to 1:06:11( Edit History Discussion )

Frank A. LoBiondo: october 13 as national metastatic breast cancer awareness day. we've heard a lot of statistics, and they are staggering. and they're staggering because much of the time some of this can be prevented. the resolution recognizes the need to raise the level of awareness and increase research on treatments that will provide a higher quality of li and

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Frank A. LoBiondo: longer life expectancy for patients living with and fighting metastatic breast cancer. i participated in a cancer awareness, american cancer society event about two weeks ago on a sunday in my district in southern new jersey on a sunday morning and a driving

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Frank A. LoBiondo: nor'easter rainstorm with very high winds and rain coming down in buckets we had hundreds of ople that showed up because they believe that involvement would make a difference. they were helping to raise the level of awareness. they were helping to get the message out that we can challenge this terrible disease

1:06:55 to 1:07:16( Edit History Discussion )

Frank A. LoBiondo: and that we can make progress. metastatic breast cancer refers to the stage four breast cancer when cancer cells travel an then do terrible things in other locations of the body. we know that this year there will be in excess of 190,000 women, almost 2,000 men and very, very tragically in excess

1:07:17 to 1:07:32( Edit History Discussion )

Frank A. LoBiondo: of 62,000 women will lose their lives. so i am a very proud sponsor -- co-sponsor of this resolution, encourage all of my colleagues n support of this and all of america to understand