HCONRES 71 · 93th Congress · Health

A concurrent resolution calling for a national commitment to cure and control cancer within this decade.

Introduced 1973-01-11· Sponsored by Rep. Price, Melvin [D-IL-23]· House

Bill Progress

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Committee
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House Vote
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Senate
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Enacted
Latest: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.(1973-01-11)

Plain Language Summary

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Makes it the sense of the Congress that: (1) not less than $650,000,000 be appropriated annually over the next ten fiscal years for the national cancer research program; (2) not less than $250,000,000 of this appropriation be utilized to construct five new cancer research institutes in the United States during the first two years of the new appropriations; and (3) the funds thus appropriated be controlled and directed by a National Cancer Authority which would have the same absolute direction of the cure and control of cancer that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has over our conquest of space.…

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