Firefighter Cancer Registry Reauthorization Act of 2023

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Mr. GUTHRIE. Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill (H.R. 3821) to reauthorize the Firefighter Cancer Registry Act of 2018.

The Clerk read the title of the bill.

The text of the bill is as follows: H.R. 3821

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ``Firefighter Cancer Registry Reauthorization Act of 2023''. SEC. 2. REAUTHORIZATION OF VOLUNTARY REGISTRY FOR FIREFIGHTER CANCER INCIDENCE.

Section 2(h) of the Firefighter Cancer Registry Act of 2018 (42 U.S.C. 280e-5(h)) is amended by striking ``$2,500,000 for each of the fiscal years 2018 through 2022'' and inserting ``$5,500,000 for each of fiscal years 2024 through 2028''.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of H.R. 3821, the Firefighter Cancer Registry Reauthorization Act.

Firefighters are among our Nation's first responder heroes. They are on the front lines of the most dangerous and frightening emergencies, and they bravely answer the call to save our family members and loved ones from harm.

Tragically, cancer remains one of the leading causes of death for firefighters, and firefighters are more likely to develop certain types of cancer than the general public.

This legislation reauthorizes the voluntary National Firefighter Registry for Cancer, which will help us to monitor, study, and understand the relationship between the toxic exposures firefighters face and cancer risk.

Mr. Speaker, I thank my friend from New Jersey for bringing this forward and working hard for this. He has seen what happens to firefighters in his community from 9/11 and on, and it is really important work that our firefighters do.

As he said, there is a group from Kentucky in town today with whom we had a chance to talk. They are the heroes who go into burning buildings to save our families and all the other things they do for us.

Mr. Speaker, I strongly urge my colleagues to support H.R. 3821, and I yield back the balance of my time.

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Mr. GUTHRIE. Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.

The yeas and nays were ordered.

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