Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives with respect to lung cancer as a public health priority and the recommendations of the Lung Cancer Progress Review Group of the National Cancer Institute.
Latest action · Nov 13, 2007 The title of the measure was amended. Agreed to without objection.
Progress
Where this resolution reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried. A simple resolution is the business of one chamber alone: it is not sent to the other chamber or to the President, and does not become law.
- IntroducedApr 24, 2007
- Agreed to in HouseNov 13, 2007
Summary
Recognizes: (1) lung cancer as a public health priority; (2) the importance of reducing the lung cancer mortality rate by at least half by 2015; (3) the benefit of graduate medical education programs in thoracic medicine and cardiothoracic surgery; and (4) the importance of the recommendations of the Lung Cancer Progress Review Group of the National Cancer Institute.
Encourages increased investment for lung cancer research and other lung cancer-related programs.
Expresses support for efforts to develop a broad-based lung cancer screening and disease management program among members of the Armed Forces and veterans.
Cosponsors 81
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Apr 24, 2007 to Nov 13, 2007; 2 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-VI | Donna M. Christensen | Original | Apr 24, 2007 |
| R-KY | Ed Whitfield | Original | Apr 24, 2007 |
| D-OH | Betty Sutton | May 14, 2007 | |
| D-NY | Michael R. McNulty | May 14, 2007 | |
| D-TX | Sheila Jackson Lee | May 14, 2007 | |
| D-WA | Jim McDermott | Jun 14, 2007 | |
| R-VA | Virgil H. Goode Jr. | Jun 14, 2007 | |
| D-VA | James P. Moran | Jun 15, 2007 | |
| D-CA | Lynn C. Woolsey | Jul 27, 2007 | |
| D-OH | Tim Ryan | Aug 2, 2007 | |
| D-GA | John Lewis | Aug 3, 2007 | |
| D-GU | Madeleine Z. Bordallo | Aug 3, 2007 | |
| D-NY | Steve Israel | Aug 3, 2007 | |
| R-IN | Dan Burton | Sep 4, 2007 | |
| D-CA | Doris O. Matsui | Sep 4, 2007 | |
| D-IL | Luis V. Gutierrez | Sep 4, 2007 | |
| D-RI | Patrick J. Kennedy | Sep 4, 2007 | |
| D-IL | Phil Hare | Sep 4, 2007 | |
| R-FL | Vern Buchanan | Sep 4, 2007 | |
| D-MA | Bill Delahunt | Sep 14, 2007 | |
| R-NJ | Frank A. LoBiondo | Sep 14, 2007 | |
| D-CA | Howard L. Berman | Sep 20, 2007 | |
| D-MD | Chris Van Hollen | Sep 26, 2007 | |
| D-NC | David E. Price | Sep 26, 2007 | |
| R-CA | Ken Calvert | Sep 26, 2007 | |
| D-WI | Tammy Baldwin | Sep 26, 2007 | |
| D-NY | Carolyn B. Maloney | Oct 4, 2007 | |
| R-FL | Connie Mack | Oct 4, 2007 | |
| D-AS | Eni F. H. Faleomavaega | Oct 4, 2007 | |
| R-MI | Fred Upton | Oct 4, 2007 | |
| D-CA | George Miller | Oct 4, 2007 | |
| R-NC | Howard Coble | Oct 4, 2007 | |
| D-MA | James P. McGovern | Oct 4, 2007 | |
| D-IL | Janice D. Schakowsky | Oct 4, 2007 | |
| R-PR | Luis G. Fortuno | Oct 4, 2007 | |
| D-CA | Mike Thompson | Oct 4, 2007 | |
| D-DC | Eleanor Holmes Norton | Oct 10, 2007 | |
| R-VA | Frank R. Wolf | Oct 10, 2007 | |
| R-NY | James T. Walsh | Oct 10, 2007 | |
| R-WI | Thomas E. Petri | Oct 10, 2007 | |
| R-OH | David L. Hobson | Oct 23, 2007 | |
| D-CA | Henry A. Waxman | Oct 23, 2007 | |
| R-NY | John R. "Randy" Kuhl Jr. | Oct 23, 2007 | |
| D-MA | Michael E. Capuano | Oct 23, 2007 | |
| R-MI | Vernon J. Ehlers | Oct 23, 2007 | |
| R-TX | Pete Sessions | Oct 29, 2007 | |
| D-PA | Tim Holden | Oct 29, 2007 | |
| D-MD | Albert Russell Wynn | Oct 30, 2007 | |
| D-NY | Anthony D. Weiner | Oct 30, 2007 | |
| D-IN | Baron P. Hill | Oct 30, 2007 | |
| D-NJ | Bill Pascrell, Jr. | Oct 30, 2007 | |
| D-IL | Bobby L. Rush | Oct 30, 2007 | |
| D-NY | Carolyn McCarthy | Oct 30, 2007 | |
| D-TX | Charles A. Gonzalez | Oct 30, 2007 | |
| D-TX | Ciro D. Rodriguez | Oct 30, 2007 | |
| D-IL | Danny K. Davis | Oct 30, 2007 | |
| D-CO | Diana DeGette | Oct 30, 2007 | |
| D-CA | Diane E. Watson | Oct 30, 2007 | |
| D-NY | Edolphus Towns | Oct 30, 2007 | |
| D-MA | Edward J. Markey | Oct 30, 2007 | |
| D-NY | Eliot L. Engel | Oct 30, 2007 | |
| D-TX | Gene Green | Oct 30, 2007 | |
| D-WI | Gwen Moore | Oct 30, 2007 | |
| D-CA | Hilda L. Solis | Oct 30, 2007 | |
| D-CA | Jane Harman | Oct 30, 2007 | |
| D-WA | Jay Inslee | Oct 30, 2007 | |
| D-GA | John Barrow | Oct 30, 2007 | |
| D-AR | Mike Ross | Oct 30, 2007 | |
| D-VA | Rick Boucher | Oct 30, 2007 | |
| D-ME | Thomas H. Allen | Oct 30, 2007 | |
| D-CA | Anna G. Eshoo | Oct 31, 2007 | |
| D-TN | Bart Gordon | Oct 31, 2007 | |
| D-MI | Bart Stupak | Oct 31, 2007 | |
| D-LA | Charlie Melancon | Oct 31, 2007 | |
| D-OR | Darlene Hooley | Oct 31, 2007 | |
| D-OR | Earl Blumenauer | Oct 31, 2007 | |
| D-NC | G. K. Butterfield | Oct 31, 2007 | |
| D-UT | Jim Matheson | Oct 31, 2007 | |
| D-MI | John D. Dingell | Oct 31, 2007 | |
| D-PA | Michael F. Doyle | Oct 31, 2007 | |
| D-TX | Lloyd Doggett | Nov 13, 2007 |
Committees 1
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 24, 2007 |
| Health Subcommittee | Referred Apr 25, 2007 |
Actions 9
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Nov 13, 2007Mrs. Capps moved to suspend the rules and agree to the resolution, as amended.
- Nov 13, 2007Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H13545-13546)
- Nov 13, 2007DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H. Res. 335.
- Nov 13, 2007Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and agree to the resolution, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H13545)
- Nov 13, 2007Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
In the Congressional Record 2
Days the Record’s own index lists this resolution, 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 E2411 | Frank A. LoBiondo R-NJ | Nov 14, 2007 |
| House | Debate and remarks H13545, H13546Text printed H13545 | Fred Upton R-MI, Lois Capps D-CA | Nov 13, 2007 |
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| SRES 87 | A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that the President should declare lung cancer a public health priority and should implement a comprehensive interagency program to reduce the lung cancer mortality rate by at least 50 percent by 2015. | Identical bill | Aug 2, 2007 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the President should declare lung cancer a public health priority and should implement a comprehensive interagency program to reduce the lung cancer mortality rate by at least 50 percent by 2015.
- Official Titles as Amended by House
- Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives with respect to lung cancer as a public health priority and the recommendations of the Lung Cancer Progress Review Group of the National Cancer Institute.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
- Armed Forces and National Security
- Case management
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- Chemotherapy
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Drug abuse
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Executive reorganization
- Federal advisory bodies
- Federal aid to research
- Federal officials
- Government Operations and Politics
- Graduate education
- Health
- Health surveys
- Higher education
- Imaging systems in medicine
- Lung cancer
- Medicaid
- Medical education
- Medical research
- Medical screening
- Medical statistics
- Medical technology
- Medical tests
- Medicare
- Military medicine
- Mortality
- Pharmaceutical research
- Quality of care
- Research centers
- Research grants
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Smoking
- Social Welfare
- Surgery
- Tobacco
- Veterans' medical care
- Vital statistics
Text 2
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Nov 13, 2007Engrossed in House
- Apr 24, 2007Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this resolution on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
