now and 2020, we would see a dramatic reduction and a dramatic immaterial prove -- improvement in the lives of americans. much better lives. if this were available to my mother-in-law, perhaps she would have been able to live another two, three, five years without the onset of alzheimer's. and what would that mean to the quality of her life as well as to her family's? let's assume the research pushes back the onset of alzheimer's by five years so that in 2025, what would we see? well, for medicare and medicaid, we would see in the years 2025 o 2030, a $121 billion reduction in the cost to medicare and medicaid. to your taxpayer dollars.

and from 2025 to 2030, that is 10 years of the new treatments being in place, we would see a half a trillion dollar reduction in the cost of medicare and medicaid. now this isn't pie in the sky. this isn't just wishful, hopeful thinking and a prayer and a song. this is a real possibility. those of you that have been reeding the -- reading the press or listening to television news programs over the last year, you'll note a significant change from hopelessness to hope. yes, hope. there is real hope that we'll be able to attack this debilitating dementia, alzheimer's. that we'll be able to delay the onset and quite possibly stop it. to cure it. now that may be off into the

future. but we're now gaining an understanding, because of the research being done on alzheimer's and much of the research discuss discussed earlier with discussion of mental health programs and research going on by the united states military as they attack the problem of post-traumatic stress and brain damage from the men and women that have served in the recent wars. all of that research is coming together with an understanding of how the human brain works. what the elements are that causes the damage mental health, schizophrenia and post-traumatic stress as well as brain damage. perhaps for the football players in the nfl and beyond. so here's what we're going to do. we're going to fight this year to increase this funding from $236 million to $

500 million. we know it's been hard to come together to put together a budget but where could money be better spent than on research that's actually moving forward toward an uning of what alzheimer's is and how the brain is attacked. how we can staal. not yet reverse but staal the onset -- not yet reverse but stall the onset that occurs as a result of alzheimer's. we've seen it. you seen the stories. we know that drug treatments that were once thought to be ineffective, treatments that were done in thed my 1990's, didn't work, or so they thought. then some statistician looked at those results of those drug trials and noticed something

really important. they noticed while the overall program didn't seem to work, they noticed there was a subset of patients that were being treated by that drug and they noticed that that subset was the early onset of alzheimer's and what they noticed was that that drug seemed to push back, seemed to hold steady that onset of alzheimer's. whoa, it was a eureka moment, that maybe using drugs of that type, applied early in the the s, would result in delay, the arresting of the alzheimer's onset. this is what we're talking about here. if we're able to invest this money in research, we can see

the probability that there are a series of drugs that do have an effect on the onset of alzheimer's. and seem to delay that onset. and each year that goes by, what's the effect? for the individual, for the family of the individual, it mean theirs life will be better. it means that the kind of stress, strain, financial cost, that's put on a family with alzheimer's will be arrested. it'll be delayed. not one year, maybe two years, maybe three, maybe five years. and the cost is enormous. as i said before, if we're able to do this increased research over the next three, four, five years, working on those series of drugs that now seem to have

in thect, we'll be able, ears 2025 to 2030, save you, the taxpayers, and us, the appropriators of your tax money, over $120 billion. in the years 25 to the years 30. and in five years beyond that, that ten-year period, a half a trillion dollars. so if you're worried about the deficit, and we all are, if you're worried about how we're going to put together a five-year budget, which is what we do, then look at this investment. if you're worried about the effect of alzheimer's in your family, or on yourself, there are 535 of us in this house, excuse me, 435 here and another

100 in the senate. one third of us are likely to die of alzheimer's in the years ahead. so if you don't care about the family, don't care about americans, care about yourself. one third of us. are destined. and if you happen to be a female, the odds are even greater. so, what's this all about? well, we're somehow grappling with the budget, the five-year budget. can't seem to get it together. enormous chaos on the side of my republican colleagues about thousand to do it. the appropriation process is under way and totally stalled out. until at least may 15. there's a solution. small investment. very small investment. and then we can look at the long-term deficit.

then we can be in a position to improve the lives of americans. oh, by the way, the money is available. the money is available. in the budget and in the appropriations we're putting together, we are ramping up so hat over the next 20 years, 25 years, we're going to spend a trillion dollars, a trillion dollars on a brand new nuclear arms race. we're going to rebuild all of our nuclear bombs. we're going to develop new airplanes to deliver those bombs. new satellites, new rockets, new cruise missiles, new submarines. trillion dollars. well, i've got a better place to spend some of that money. i've got a better place to spend it where the lives of americans

will be significantly improved. where the stress on families throughout this nation will be less. where the budgets of this ountry will not be busted. where this curve, where this curve will be flattened. here we will not in the year 2050 spend over $1 trillion a year -- $1 trillion a year -- caring for people who have alzheimer's. three quarters of that money is your tax money. you go back here, 2020, and start spending a couple hundred million dollars, a couple hundred million dollars, on

research, on promising treatments for alzheimer's. and then beginning in 2025, watch this curve begin to flatten out. now for me and many of us in this room, we're not going to be out here in 2025, but our children and grandchildren will be. and they'll be caring for us. unless -- unless we begin to make these investments now in research. so in the next couple of weeks, the men and women in purple will be here in washington, d.c. as they do every spring, advocating for alzheimer's research, for the care givers, and for the families. and we ought to be paying attention. the money is in the budget somewhere. all we need to do is to find it.

move it from a few nuclear weapons over to research. delay the expenditure of a new ballistic missile or intercontinental ballistic missile and spend it on something that affects every american, every day of this year. and every day of the years in the future. that's alzheimer's. it's a good investment. it's an investment in the quality of life. it's an investment. in our effort to reduce the deficit and it's an investment in america's future. mr. speaker, with that, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the entleman yields back his time. does the gentleman have a motion? mr. garamendi: mr. speaker, i'm

happy to move adjournment. the speaker pro tempore: the question is on the motion to adjourn. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the ayes have it. the motion is adopted. accordingly, the house stands adjourned until 10:00 a.m. tomorrow for >> the campaign 2016 the continues to speak to winners of the student can competition to

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