Senate Resolutions - 109th Congress

S. Res. 408—A Resolution Expressing the Sense of the Senate that the President should Declare Lung Cancer a Public Health Priority and ahould Implement a Comprehensive Interagency Program that will Reduce Lung Cancer Mortality by at Least 50 Percent by 2015

On March 28, 2006, Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE) introduced 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 that will reduce lung cancer mortality by at least 50 percent by 2015. The resolution calls on the Secretary of HHS to increase funding for lung cancer research and other lung cancer-related programs as well as the appointment of a Lung Cancer Scientific and Medical Advisory Committee and the convening of a National Lung Cancer Public Health Policy Board. The measure was referred to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP).