Remarks by President Biden and First Lady Jill Biden Establishing the First-Ever White House Initiative on Women's Health Research
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"Well, folks, I'm going to be signing a presidential memorandum in just a minute here to establish the first-ever White House Initiative on Women's Health Research.
It's an effort made possible by Jill, who's been a long champion of women's health, and Jen Klein, Dr. Mazure, Maria Shriver, and others.
Because the fact is that it requires all of government -- not just NIH, but HHS, the VA, the Defense Department, and every agency in the government having anything to do with health -- it requires them to come up with a report to me -- for me that lays out what they can do collectively to improve women's health.
Women make up more than half the population. But for too long, they've been underrepresented when it comes to health research and the money spent on that research. That's going to change today.
So, this -- signing this, I'm setting up this group that within 45 days, all the government agencies that have anything to do with health have to report on exactly what they're doing now with regard to women's health and the suggestions they may have on how to deal with it.
So, let me sign now this and make it official, and then yield to Jill.
Well, let -- Jill, I'm going to yield to you first."
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"Well --."
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"You don't have to thank me. I didn't realize how -- how much incongruity there was and how imbalanced it was. So, God willing, we're going to solve that."
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"With regard to a potential shutdown, I understand that the new Speaker of the House has a proposal that's being negotiated with the Minority Leader of the House and Senator Schumer and -- and the Republican Leader also talking about it.
I don't know what the outcome is going to be. Apparently, there's a meeting today at four or five o'clock on the Rules Committee. And we'll see what happens."
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"I'm not going to make a judgment on what I'd veto or what I'd sign. But let's wait and see what they come up with."
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"Well, you know I have not been reluctant in expressing my concerns what's going on. And it is my hope and expectation that there will be less intrusive action relative to the hospital. We're in contact, and we're -- with -- with the Israelis.
Also, there is an effort to take this pause to deal the release of prisoners, and that's being negotiated as well with -- the Qataris are engaged and --
So, I remain somewhat hopeful. But the hospital must be protected."
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