Latest Update: Friday, January, 16th 2009

Expressing the sense of Congress in support of further research and activities to increase public awareness, professional education, diagnosis, and treatment of Dandy-Walker syndrome and hydrocephalus. 9/22/2008--Passed Senate without amendment.    (There are 2 other summaries) (This measure has not been amended since it was passed by the House on June 26, 2008. The summary of that version is repeated here.)Commends the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for working with leading scientists and researchers to organize the first NIH conference on hydrocephalus in September 2005 and the Inaugural Cerebellar Development: Bench to Bedside International Conference in November 2006.Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) the Director of NIH should continue the current collaboration among the National Human Genome Research Institute, the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, the National Institute [...]

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  • 09/22/2008 - Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions discharged by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S9179-9185)
  • 09/22/2008 - Resolution agreed to in Senate without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (text: CR S9181)
  • 09/22/2008 - Message on Senate action sent to the House.
  • 06/27/2008 - Received in the Senate and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
  • 06/26/2008 - Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H6121)

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