HR 1624 · 107th Congress 2001–2003, ended

Access to Cancer Therapies Act of 2001

Introduced Apr 26, 2001 Originated House Sponsor Deborah Pryce R-OH

Latest action · May 8, 2001 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Progress

Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.

IntroducedApr 26, 2001
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Access to Cancer Therapies Act of 2001 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to extend Medicare coverage to all oral drugs prescribed for use as an anticancer agent for a medically accepted indication.

Cosponsors 327

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Apr 26, 2001 to Oct 10, 2002; 9 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
R-OH	David L. Hobson	Original	Apr 26, 2001
D-TX	Ken Bentsen	Original	Apr 26, 2001
D-CA	Lois Capps	Original	Apr 26, 2001
R-FL	Mark Foley	Original	Apr 26, 2001
R-MD	Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.	Original	Apr 26, 2001
R-MO	Roy Blunt	Original	Apr 26, 2001
R-NC	Sue Wilkins Myrick	Original	Apr 26, 2001
D-OH	Tony P. Hall	Original	Apr 26, 2001
D-AR	Vic Snyder	Original	Apr 26, 2001
D-MA	Barney Frank		May 2, 2001
R-NJ	Frank A. LoBiondo		May 2, 2001
D-TX	Gene Green		May 2, 2001
D-ME	John Elias Baldacci		May 2, 2001
D-TX	Martin Frost		May 2, 2001
D-CA	Mike Thompson		May 2, 2001
D-OH	Ted Strickland		May 2, 2001
R-VA	Virgil H. Goode Jr.		May 2, 2001
R-OK	Wes Watkins		May 2, 2001
R-NJ	Christopher H. Smith		May 8, 2001
D-MN	Collin C. Peterson		May 8, 2001
R-MD	Constance A. Morella		May 8, 2001
D-MI	Dale E. Kildee		May 8, 2001
D-NY	Edolphus Towns		May 8, 2001
D-AR	Marion Berry		May 8, 2001
D-NJ	Robert E. Andrews		May 8, 2001
R-OH	Robert W. Ney		May 8, 2001
D-GA	Sanford D. Bishop, Jr.		May 8, 2001
D-CA	Tom Lantos		May 8, 2001
D-LA	William J. Jefferson		May 8, 2001
D-MS	Bennie G. Thompson		May 9, 2001
R-AK	Don Young		May 9, 2001
R-WA	George R. Nethercutt Jr.		May 9, 2001
D-MI	James A. Barcia		May 9, 2001
D-TN	John S. Tanner		May 9, 2001
D-AL	Robert E. (Bud) Cramer Jr.		May 9, 2001
D-CA	Anna G. Eshoo		May 10, 2001
D-MI	David E. Bonior		May 10, 2001
R-OK	Frank D. Lucas		May 10, 2001
D-NY	Major R. Owens		May 10, 2001
D-WI	Thomas M. Barrett		May 10, 2001
R-AL	Bob Riley		May 15, 2001
D-OR	Darlene Hooley		May 15, 2001
D-IL	David D. Phelps		May 15, 2001
D-OR	David Wu		May 15, 2001
D-ND	Earl Pomeroy		May 15, 2001
R-GA	Johnny Isakson		May 15, 2001
R-NJ	Mike Ferguson		May 15, 2001
D-MS	Ronnie Shows		May 15, 2001
D-WI	Tammy Baldwin		May 15, 2001
R-WY	Barbara Cubin		May 16, 2001
R-IN	Brian D. Kerns		May 16, 2001
R-MS	Charles W. "Chip" Pickering		May 16, 2001
R-FL	E. Clay Shaw Jr.		May 16, 2001
D-TX	Eddie Bernice Johnson		May 16, 2001
R-OR	Greg Walden		May 16, 2001
D-CA	Juanita Millender-McDonald		May 16, 2001
D-CT	Rosa L. DeLauro		May 16, 2001
R-FL	Adam H. Putnam		May 22, 2001
D-MI	Bart Stupak		May 22, 2001
D-NY	Carolyn B. Maloney		May 22, 2001
D-FL	Carrie P. Meek		May 22, 2001
D-NY	Eliot L. Engel		May 22, 2001
R-SC	Floyd Spence		May 22, 2001
R-IL	Henry J. Hyde		May 22, 2001
D-CA	Howard L. Berman		May 22, 2001
D-WA	Jim McDermott		May 22, 2001
D-IL	Lane Evans		May 22, 2001
R-IL	Mark Kirk		May 22, 2001
D-RI	Patrick J. Kennedy		May 22, 2001
D-OR	Peter A. DeFazio		May 22, 2001
R-CT	Rob Simmons		May 22, 2001
R-NJ	Rodney P. Frelinghuysen		May 22, 2001
D-TX	Sheila Jackson Lee		May 22, 2001
D-TN	Bart Gordon		May 25, 2001
R-MT	Denny Rehberg		May 25, 2001
D-OR	Earl Blumenauer		May 25, 2001
R-TN	Ed Bryant		May 25, 2001
D-MN	James L. Oberstar		May 25, 2001
D-IL	Janice D. Schakowsky		May 25, 2001
R-VA	Jo Ann Davis		May 25, 2001
D-CA	Lynn C. Woolsey		May 25, 2001
R-NJ	Marge Roukema		May 25, 2001
R-PA	Melissa A. Hart		May 25, 2001
D-NC	Melvin L. Watt		May 25, 2001
D-MI	Sander M. Levin		May 25, 2001
R-CA	Stephen Horn		May 25, 2001
R-OH	Steven C. LaTourette		May 25, 2001
D-CA	Adam B. Schiff		Jun 5, 2001
D-MD	Albert Russell Wynn		Jun 5, 2001
D-CA	Barbara Lee		Jun 5, 2001
D-VI	Donna M. Christensen		Jun 5, 2001
D-DC	Eleanor Holmes Norton		Jun 5, 2001
D-MD	Elijah E. Cummings		Jun 5, 2001
D-NY	Gary L. Ackerman		Jun 5, 2001
D-CA	George Miller		Jun 5, 2001
R-NY	Jack Quinn		Jun 5, 2001
D-NY	Jerrold Nadler		Jun 5, 2001
D-IL	Jerry F. Costello		Jun 5, 2001
R-NJ	Jim Saxton		Jun 5, 2001
D-MI	Lynn N. Rivers		Jun 5, 2001
D-MA	Michael E. Capuano		Jun 5, 2001
D-PA	Michael F. Doyle		Jun 5, 2001
D-NY	Michael R. McNulty		Jun 5, 2001
R-MI	Mike Rogers		Jun 5, 2001
R-NY	Peter T. King		Jun 5, 2001
R-MS	Roger F. Wicker		Jun 5, 2001
D-OH	Sherrod Brown		Jun 5, 2001
R-FL	Ander Crenshaw		Jun 13, 2001
D-TX	Charles A. Gonzalez		Jun 13, 2001
D-NY	Charles B. Rangel		Jun 13, 2001
R-VA	Edward L. Schrock		Jun 13, 2001
D-NJ	Frank Pallone, Jr.		Jun 13, 2001
R-VA	Frank R. Wolf		Jun 13, 2001
D-VA	James P. Moran		Jun 13, 2001
R-WA	Jennifer Dunn		Jun 13, 2001
R-PA	John E. Peterson		Jun 13, 2001
D-MA	John F. Tierney		Jun 13, 2001
R-FL	John L. Mica		Jun 13, 2001
R-CA	John T. Doolittle		Jun 13, 2001
D-CA	Loretta Sanchez		Jun 13, 2001
R-IN	Mark E. Souder		Jun 13, 2001
D-MA	Martin T. Meehan		Jun 13, 2001
D-FL	Peter Deutsch		Jun 13, 2001
R-NC	Walter B. Jones		Jun 13, 2001
R-PA	Curt Weldon		Jun 19, 2001
R-FL	Dave Weldon		Jun 19, 2001
D-NC	David E. Price		Jun 19, 2001
R-CA	Elton Gallegly		Jun 19, 2001
R-NY	James T. Walsh		Jun 19, 2001
R-TN	John J. Duncan, Jr.		Jun 19, 2001
D-NM	Tom Udall		Jun 19, 2001
D-PA	William J. Coyne		Jun 19, 2001
D-IL	William O. Lipinski		Jun 19, 2001
R-NY	Benjamin A. Gilman		Jun 25, 2001
D-IL	Bobby L. Rush		Jun 25, 2001
D-NY	Carolyn McCarthy		Jun 25, 2001
D-IL	Danny K. Davis		Jun 25, 2001
D-KS	Dennis Moore		Jun 25, 2001
R-PA	James C. Greenwood		Jun 25, 2001
R-IL	Jerry Weller		Jun 25, 2001
R-SC	Jim DeMint		Jun 25, 2001
R-CO	Joel Hefley		Jun 25, 2001
R-NH	John E. Sununu		Jun 25, 2001
D-IN	Julia Carson		Jun 25, 2001
D-IL	Luis V. Gutierrez		Jun 25, 2001
D-HI	Neil Abercrombie		Jun 25, 2001
D-NY	Nita M. Lowey		Jun 25, 2001
R-WI	Paul D. Ryan		Jun 25, 2001
D-MA	Richard E. Neal		Jun 25, 2001
D-OH	Stephanie Tubbs Jones		Jun 25, 2001
R-NY	Sue W. Kelly		Jun 25, 2001
R-KS	Todd Tiahrt		Jun 25, 2001
D-OH	Tom Sawyer		Jun 25, 2001
R-NH	Charles F. Bass		Jun 28, 2001
R-FL	Cliff Stearns		Jun 28, 2001
R-OH	Patrick J. Tiberi		Jun 28, 2001
D-IL	Rod R. Blagojevich		Jun 28, 2001
R-AR	Asa Hutchinson		Jul 10, 2001
D-NJ	Bill Pascrell, Jr.		Jul 10, 2001
R-IN	Dan Burton		Jul 10, 2001
D-CA	Diane E. Watson		Jul 10, 2001
R-IA	James A. Leach		Jul 10, 2001
D-CT	James H. Maloney		Jul 10, 2001
R-CA	Randy (Duke) Cunningham		Jul 10, 2001
D-FL	Robert Wexler		Jul 10, 2001
R-NY	Sherwood Boehlert		Jul 10, 2001
R-IA	Tom Latham		Jul 10, 2001
D-NC	Bob Etheridge		Jul 12, 2001
D-OK	Brad Carson		Jul 12, 2001
D-WA	Brian Baird		Jul 12, 2001
R-PA	Don Sherwood		Jul 12, 2001
R-PA	George W. Gekas		Jul 12, 2001
D-IL	Jesse L. Jackson, Jr.		Jul 12, 2001
D-WA	Norman D. Dicks		Jul 12, 2001
D-PA	Robert A. Borski		Jul 12, 2001
R-KS	Jerry Moran		Jul 17, 2001
D-CA	Michael M. Honda		Jul 17, 2001
D-HI	Patsy T. Mink		Jul 17, 2001
R-MI	Dave Camp		Jul 20, 2001
R-VA	Eric Cantor		Jul 20, 2001
D-CA	Nancy Pelosi		Jul 20, 2001
D-WA	Adam Smith		Jul 24, 2001
D-MN	Betty McCollum		Jul 24, 2001
R-IL	Donald A. Manzullo		Jul 24, 2001
R-NY	John E. Sweeney		Jul 24, 2001
D-NY	John J. LaFalce		Jul 24, 2001
D-NY	Jose E. Serrano		Jul 24, 2001
D-CA	Robert T. Matsui		Jul 24, 2001
R-PA	Todd Russell Platts		Jul 24, 2001
D-FL	Alcee L. Hastings		Jul 26, 2001
D-NY	Anthony D. Weiner		Jul 26, 2001
D-NY	Joseph Crowley		Jul 26, 2001
R-TX	Kevin Brady		Jul 26, 2001
D-MN	Martin Olav Sabo		Jul 26, 2001
R-TX	Pete Sessions		Jul 26, 2001
R-OH	Ralph Regula		Jul 26, 2001
D-CA	Sam Farr		Jul 26, 2001
R-NY	Amo Houghton		Jul 31, 2001
D-TX	Chet Edwards		Jul 31, 2001
R-UT	Chris Cannon		Jul 31, 2001
R-NY	Felix J. Grucci Jr.		Jul 31, 2001
D-MA	James P. McGovern		Jul 31, 2001
D-NY	Maurice D. Hinchey		Jul 31, 2001
R-TX	Henry Bonilla		Aug 2, 2001
R-MN	Jim Ramstad		Aug 2, 2001
R-IL	Ray LaHood		Aug 2, 2001
D-PA	Robert A. Brady		Aug 2, 2001
D-MN	Bill Luther		Sep 6, 2001
D-CA	Bob Filner		Sep 6, 2001
R-CA	Duncan Hunter		Sep 6, 2001
R-FL	Ileana Ros-Lehtinen		Sep 6, 2001
R-AZ	J. D. Hayworth		Sep 6, 2001
D-WA	Jay Inslee		Sep 6, 2001
R-MI	Joe Knollenberg		Sep 6, 2001
D-KY	Ken Lucas		Sep 6, 2001
D-OH	Marcy Kaptur		Sep 6, 2001
R-DE	Michael N. Castle		Sep 6, 2001
D-NC	Mike McIntyre		Sep 6, 2001
R-OH	Rob Portman		Sep 6, 2001
R-AL	Sonny Callahan		Sep 6, 2001
R-AL	Spencer Bachus		Sep 6, 2001
R-VA	Bob Goodlatte		Sep 25, 2001
D-UT	Jim Matheson		Sep 25, 2001
R-TX	Joe Barton		Sep 25, 2001
R-FL	Ric Keller		Sep 25, 2001
D-CA	Grace F. Napolitano		Oct 9, 2001
D-VA	Robert C. "Bobby" Scott		Oct 9, 2001
D-MO	Wm. Lacy Clay		Oct 9, 2001
R-MO	Jo Ann Emerson		Oct 16, 2001
R-WI	Thomas E. Petri		Oct 16, 2001
R-WV	Shelley Moore Capito		Oct 30, 2001
R-AZ	Bob Stump		Nov 13, 2001
R-IL	Judy Biggert		Nov 13, 2001
R-AZ	Jim Kolbe		Nov 29, 2001
D-MA	John W. Olver		Dec 18, 2001
R-MD	Wayne T. Gilchrest		Dec 18, 2001
R-KS	Jim Ryun		Dec 20, 2001
D-CA	Jane Harman		Feb 6, 2002
R-SC	Joe Wilson		Feb 6, 2002
D-NY	Steve Israel		Feb 6, 2002
R-CA	Darrell Issa		Feb 27, 2002
R-VA	J. Randy Forbes		Feb 27, 2002
D-CT	John B. Larson		Feb 27, 2002
D-LA	Christopher John		Mar 12, 2002
D-GA	John Lewis		Mar 12, 2002
D-FL	Karen L. Thurman		Mar 12, 2002
R-PA	Phil English		Mar 12, 2002
D-TX	Ciro D. Rodriguez		Apr 9, 2002
D-MI	John D. Dingell		Apr 9, 2002
R-GA	Saxby Chambliss		Apr 9, 2002
D-MA	Stephen F. Lynch		Apr 9, 2002
D-TN	Bob Clement		Apr 24, 2002
D-CA	Brad Sherman		Apr 24, 2002
D-NY	Gregory W. Meeks		Apr 24, 2002
D-CA	Joe Baca		Apr 24, 2002
D-MO	Karen McCarthy		Apr 24, 2002
D-GU	Robert A. Underwood		Apr 24, 2002
D-CA	Susan A. Davis		Apr 24, 2002
D-GA	Cynthia A. McKinney		May 2, 2002
R-LA	David Vitter		May 2, 2002
R-KY	Ed Whitfield		May 2, 2002
D-RI	James R. Langevin		May 2, 2002
R-SD	John Thune		May 2, 2002
R-FL	Lincoln Diaz-Balart		May 2, 2002
R-SC	Lindsey Graham		May 2, 2002
R-CA	Richard W. Pombo		May 2, 2002
D-VA	Rick Boucher		May 2, 2002
D-WI	Ron Kind		May 2, 2002
D-PA	Tim Holden		May 2, 2002
R-TN	William L. Jenkins		May 2, 2002
R-TN	Zach Wamp		May 2, 2002
R-CO	Bob Schaffer		May 14, 2002
D-NJ	Donald M. Payne		May 14, 2002
D-AZ	Ed Pastor		May 14, 2002
D-PA	Frank Mascara		May 14, 2002
D-MO	Ike Skelton		May 14, 2002
D-PA	John P. Murtha		May 14, 2002
D-NY	Louise McIntosh Slaughter		May 14, 2002
D-TX	Max Sandlin		May 14, 2002
D-WA	Rick Larsen		May 14, 2002
R-MD	Roscoe G. Bartlett		May 14, 2002
D-TX	Silvestre Reyes		May 14, 2002
D-MD	Steny H. Hoyer		May 14, 2002
D-ME	Thomas H. Allen		May 14, 2002
R-TN	Van Hilleary		May 14, 2002
I-VT	Bernard Sanders		May 22, 2002
R-CT	Christopher Shays		May 22, 2002
D-SC	James E. Clyburn		May 22, 2002
R-WI	Mark Green		May 22, 2002
R-IN	Mike Pence		May 22, 2002
D-NJ	Robert Menendez		May 22, 2002
D-PA	Chaka Fattah		Jun 4, 2002
D-CO	Diana DeGette		Jun 4, 2002
R-CA	Howard P. "Buck" McKeon		Jun 4, 2002
D-PA	Joseph M. Hoeffel		Jun 4, 2002
R-IL	Timothy V. Johnson		Jun 4, 2002
D-FL	Corrine Brown		Jun 12, 2002
R-IL	John Shimkus		Jun 12, 2002
R-ID	Michael K. Simpson		Jun 12, 2002
D-NJ	Rush Holt		Jun 12, 2002
R-CA	Doug Ose		Jun 21, 2002
R-IN	John N. Hostettler		Jun 21, 2002
D-NJ	Steven R. Rothman		Jun 21, 2002
R-NY	Thomas M. Reynolds		Jun 21, 2002
D-NC	Eva M. Clayton		Jun 27, 2002
R-NE	Lee Terry		Jun 27, 2002
R-GA	Jack Kingston		Jul 16, 2002
D-FL	Allen Boyd		Jul 25, 2002
R-PA	Bill Shuster		Jul 25, 2002
D-CA	Henry A. Waxman		Jul 25, 2002
D-TX	Jim Turner		Jul 25, 2002
R-NM	Joe Skeen		Jul 25, 2002
D-MI	John Conyers, Jr.		Jul 25, 2002
D-CO	Mark Udall		Jul 25, 2002
D-NV	Shelley Berkley		Jul 25, 2002
D-CA	Zoe Lofgren		Jul 25, 2002
D-CA	Lucille Roybal-Allard		Jul 26, 2002
R-IA	Greg Ganske		Sep 10, 2002
D-AR	Mike Ross		Sep 10, 2002
D-NY	Nydia M. Velázquez		Sep 10, 2002
R-NE	Tom Osborne		Sep 10, 2002
D-CA	Calvin M. Dooley		Sep 13, 2002
D-MI	Carolyn C. Kilpatrick		Sep 13, 2002
R-AZ	John B. Shadegg		Sep 13, 2002
D-MD	Benjamin L. Cardin		Sep 26, 2002
R-TX	Ralph M. Hall		Oct 8, 2002
R-VA	Tom Davis		Oct 10, 2002

Committees 2

Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.

Chamber	Committee	What it did
House	Energy and Commerce Committee	Referred Apr 26, 2001
	Health Subcommittee	Referred May 8, 2001
House	Ways and Means Committee	Referred Apr 26, 2001
	Health Subcommittee	Referred May 3, 2001

Actions 4

Everything that happened, newest first.

May 8, 2001Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
May 3, 2001Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Apr 26, 2001Introduced in House
Apr 26, 2001Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

In the Congressional Record 2

Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.

Where	In the Record	Members	Date
Extensions	Debate and remarks E1878	Carolyn B. Maloney D-NY	Oct 17, 2002
House	Debate and remarks H2095	Elijah E. Cummings D-MD	May 2, 2002

Research

What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.

Printed hearings 1

Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.

Number	Hearing	Committee	Held
Serial No. 107-105	MEDICARE MODERNIZATION: EXAMINING THE FEDERAL EMPLOYEES HEALTH BENEFIT PROGRAM AS A MODEL FOR SENIORS105 pages	Energy and Commerce Committee	Mar 20, 2002

Related bills 1

Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.

Bill	Title	Relationship	Latest action
S 913	Access to Cancer Therapies Act of 2001	Identical bill	May 17, 2001

Titles 3

Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.

Official Title as Introduced: To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage under the Medicare Program of all oral anticancer drugs.
Short Titles as Introduced: Access to Cancer Therapies Act of 2001
Popular Titles: Oral Anti-Cancer Drug Coverage bill

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Apr 26, 2001Introduced in House

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