{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.collins.senate.gov/newsroom/senator-collins-two-bills-to-combat-alzheimers-head-to-presidents-desk", "Senator Collins\u2019 Two Bills to Combat Alzheimer\u2019s Head to President\u2019s Desk", "2024-09-23", "2024", "2024-09", "Republican", "House", "GA", "Mike Collins", "C001129", "www.collins.senate.gov", "collins", "https://www.collins.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases", "scraper", "Washington, D.C. \u2013 U.S. Senator Susan Collins applauded the passage by the House of Representatives of two bipartisan bills that would cement and build on the important progress that has been made to prevent and effectively treat Alzheimer\u2019s disease. The National Alzheimer's Project Act (NAPA) Reauthorization, which she authored with Senator Mark Warner (D-VA), and the Alzheimer\u2019s Accountability and Investment Act (AAIA), which she authored with Senator Ed Markey (D-MA), now head to the President\u2019s desk to be signed into law.\n\n\u201cWe have made tremendous progress in recent years to boost funding for Alzheimer\u2019s research, which holds great promise to end this disease that has had a devastating effect on millions of Americans and their families,\u201d said Senator Collins, a founder and co-chair of the Congressional Task Force on Alzheimer\u2019s Disease. \u201cThese two bills will maintain our momentum and make sure that we do not take our foot off the pedal just as our investments in basic research are beginning to translate into potential new treatments. We must not let Alzheimer\u2019s to be one of the defining diseases of our children\u2019s generation as it has ours.\u201d\n\n\u201cI know from firsthand experience what a devastating illness Alzheimer\u2019s disease is, as I watched my mother battle with it for a decade before her passing,\u201d said Senator Warner, co-chair of the Congressional Task Force on Alzheimer\u2019s Disease. \u201cWhile we\u2019ve made great strides in research, there is still so much work to be done to find effective ways to prevent and treat Alzheimer\u2019s. On behalf of the millions of American families who have been touched by Alzheimer\u2019s, I\u2019m glad to see these two bills head to the president\u2019s desk to be signed into law.\u201d\n\n\u201cSince my mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer\u2019s in 1985, I have fought to ensure the federal government has the funding, resources, and coordination necessary to find a cure for this disease,\u201d said Senator Markey, chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Subcommittee on Primary Health and Retirement Security and founder and co-chair of the Congressional Task Force on Alzheimer\u2019s. \u201cThe National Alzheimer\u2019s Plan Act and the Alzheimer\u2019s Accountability Act have transformed our understanding of the disease and its risk factors for more than a decade. But our work is not yet done. Today\u2019s extension of these bills until 2035 is a commitment from Congress that we will not stop fighting until Alzheimer\u2019s is a disease only found in history books. I thank Senator Collins and my colleagues for their support in delivering hope to millions of families just like mine across the country as these two bills head to the President\u2019s desk.\u201d\n\nMore than six million Americans are living with Alzheimer\u2019s. Alzheimer\u2019s costs our nation an astonishing $360 billion per year, including $231 billion in costs to Medicare and Medicaid. If we continue along this trajectory, Alzheimer\u2019s is projected to claim the minds of 13.8 million seniors by 2060 and nearly surpass $1 trillion in annual costs by 2050. In 2022, family caregivers provided 18 billion hours of unpaid care for loved ones with dementia.\n\nIn 2011, Senator Susan Collins authored the National Alzheimer's Project Act (NAPA) with then-Senator Evan Bayh (D-IN). NAPA convened a panel of experts, who created a coordinated strategic national plan to prevent and effectively treat Alzheimer\u2019s disease by 2025. The law is set to expire soon and must be reauthorized to ensure that research investments remain coordinated, and their impact is maximized.\n\nThe NAPA Reauthorization Act would:\n\nReauthorize NAPA through 2035 and modernize the legislation to reflect strides that have been made to understand the disease, such as including a new focus on promoting healthy aging and reducing risk factors.\n\nUpdate language in recognition of the need to include underserved populations, including individuals with Down syndrome, who are at increased risk for Alzheimer\u2019s as they age.\n\nThis bill is now endorsed by the National Down Syndrome Society, the National Down Syndrome Congress, and LuMind IDSC Foundation.\n\nThe Alzheimer\u2019s Accountability and Investment Act would:\n\nContinue through 2035 a requirement that the Director of the National Institutes of Health submit an annual budget to Congress estimating the funding necessary to fully implement NAPA\u2019s research goals.\n\nOnly two other areas of biomedical research \u2013 cancer and HIV/AIDS \u2013 have been the subject of special budget development aimed at speeding discovery.\n\nIn addition to Senators Collins, Warner, and Markey, both bills are cosponsored by Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Jerry Moran (R-KS), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), and Debbie Stabenow (D-MI).\n\nThe NAPA Reauthorization Act and the Alzheimer\u2019s Accountability and Investment Act are endorsed by the Alzheimer\u2019s Association and UsAgainstAlzheimer\u2019s.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T21:43:57Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.collins.senate.gov/newsroom/senator-collins-two-bills-to-combat-alzheimers-head-to-presidents-desk"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 2.736456925049424, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}