Over the past five years, Senator Patty Murray has been working on a very important piece of legislation called the Ban Asbestos In America Act.  The Act includes language which provides for mesothelioma research funding. 

During testimony before a Senate panel, Dr. Harvey Pass, testified before a Senate panel and explained why asbestos exposure remains a serious threat to the health of Americans.  Dr. Pass went on to explain to the panel that, “the mesothelioma victims of today built our country as pipe fitters, insulators, boilermakers, electricians, and shipbuilders, among others, and a third of today’s mesothelioma victims served the U.S. on Navy ships or shipyards.  Families have been destroyed by second hand fiber exposure when these heroes brought asbestos from their livelihood into their home.”

Sue Vento, the widow of the late Congressman Bruce Vento, also testified before this Senate panel, giving her personal account of her late husband’s battle with mesothelioma that took his life on October 10, 2000, just ten months after being diagnosed.                       

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