even bredesen and a permanent biochemistry at howard university and his past year of the american heart association on attrition, physical activity my pastor of the nutrition committee of the american heart association and past chairman of the nutrition studies section of the national institutes of health. her major sea -- major research is in cramer's, a disease in relation to diabetes and is the risk of that group and her current research projects include strong heart study, multi center study of cardiovascular disease and its risk practice of american indians and a study of the genetics of coronary artery disease and alaskan eskimos. and then finally we have serving as co-director of the quality improvement collaborative, expecting success excellence and cardiac care. research professor and director of the center for health care quality and the health policy at the george washington university school of public health and health services. at this time we will swear you in. please swear or affirm the information that you have provided and will provide is true and accurate to the best of your knowl

over 1,000 health and faith-based groups from across the country, including the american cancer association, the american heart association, the american lung association, the campaign for tobacco free kids, and the american dental association. this bill also preserves states right's my not preempting state tobacco laws. it's extremely important to respect in many states, including my own home state of colorado, already recognized the dangers of smoking and the role that regulation can play and have excellent laws on the books that keep cigarettes out of the law, out of the hands of children and also regulates secondhand smoke. i'm very proud to say my home state of colorado is recognized as a leer in tobacco control as demonstrated by our leadership in enacting a comprehensive smoke free law that includes casinos. additionally colorado's working on enacting a youth access policy statewide. senator from my district, the state senator, introduced a bill last year that required i.d. checks for tobacco purchases and prohibited youth from possessing tobacco products. i'd like to highlight in conclusion a story of

the surface. $50 million a year for heart disease and stroke prevention programs. that's nothing. >> but we spend more than $50 million a year through the american heart association doing that same thing which you don't count. in other words you ear counting just what gets spent by the federal government. there's hundreds of millions of dollars on streak prevention. >> there's diabetes, that's tobacco, even school health, oral health. then there's environmental health programs injury prevention programs that we do fund. what i'm trying to do in this bill is get a new frame work, most of which goes obviously through the center of disease control and i might add. cdc is the center for disease control and prevention. and to get through this and pull this together under one regime. and that's why just to say we're doing it in some other area, a lot of those again are discretionary. they're not funded. that's why i argued for a mandatory program. >> and i take your argument in face value. and, in fact, let's move all the rest of the programs to the cdc so we have one source, one place to do it, one management team we can hod accountable that gives us metrics and say we spen

the american heart association, american red cross, and national safety council all are promoting training and awareness this week. this lifesaving training must extend throughout the year. a bill we passed this week, h.r. 1380, authorizes funding for schools to purchase a.d.'s and train staff in c.p.r. for 30 years i have responded to such emergencies in rural pennsylvania. with h.r. 1380, rural schools will be able to handle these emergencies. please join me in supporting national c.p.r. awareness week. with that i yield back my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields backment are there further one-minute requests? . without objection, the gentleman from michigan is recognized. mr. kildee: mr. speaker, as chairman of the house page board, i would like to take this opportunity to express my personal gratitude to all the pages, some of whom we have here tonight, for all they have done to serve so diligently in the house of representatives between the 110th and 111th congresses. i have attached a list of the fine young men who have served this house as pages along with the young

beginning 2001, the "journal" of american medical association looked at the data and said look for it is pretty clear that patient was taking less has more than twice the risk of heart attacks as the one that is taking alleve. powerful findings. merck scientist paid by merck for that major medical centers replied, no. look at the studies to different ways either vioxx cars as a heart attack but we believe alleve is preventing heart attacks. we do not have a drug that prevents a 60% but we would put it in the water supply. [laughter] they say the defense is corteo protected and eventually the real truth came out with a placebo was done three years later hundreds of thousands of people, and millions of people took vioxx in the meantime. it was withdrawn from the market september 2004 but by then 20 million people had taken the drug and somewhere between 88,000 and 144,000 part attacks occurred because of this. this is a public health disaster. we see the same campaign and approach by the tobacco scientist much more widely. there is a famous memo from a political consultant who is a news analyst and focus group leader who wrote to the republican party in 2003 saying th

the most serious public health programs. almost 70 million americans find prehypertension are in danger of developing hypertension as associated complications. hypertension, as you well know, leads to more than half of heart attack, stroke and heart failure caused in the united states. kidney disease and heart fail yurl is nearly 40 percent greater in african-americans compared to the general population. mexican-americans also experience an even higher rate of hypertension, and we see similar numbers in the native american community. the rate of congestive heart failure in black non-hispanics between the age of 64-75 are more than twice the rate of that for white non-hispanics. in addition to heart disease disparities, african-americans are 30 percent more likely to develop cancer and 30 for percet more likely to die from cancer compared to the general populations. hispanics in the u.s. are 50 percent more likely than whites to suffer from diabetes, and in native americans that number, as well, is twice as likely. asian-americans are much more likely to suffer from liver cancer as compare odd the general populations, so we have seen over the past many, many decades of health disparities reporting an emerg

the american medical association published a review by three respected cardiologists to look that the data and said look, it is pretty clear the patients taking vioxx had more than twice the risk of heart attacks as the ones taking a leave. powerful findings. merck scientists working not just for mark but paid by merck and working some of the major medical centers replied, no you conducted the studies to different ways and either vioxx is causing heart attacks are what we believe is a leave it is preventing heart attacks. now, we don't have a drug that prevents 60% of heart attacks. if we did we would put it in the water supply but they published over and over sing the difference is a believe in scargill protective. eventually the real truth came out when the trial in september 2004, hundreds of thousands of people, millions of people took vioxx in the meantime. vioxx was withdrawn from the market and by then 20 million people it taken the drug and the fda scientists estimate between 88,144,000 heart attacks occurred because of this. this is a public health disaster. we see the same campaign, the same approach in many cases by the same scientists much more widely now. there is a famous