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[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 204 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 204

 Congratulating the American Dental Association for its 150th year of 
 working to improve the public's oral health and promoting dentistry, 
 supporting initiatives to improve access to oral health care services 
   for all Americans, and emphasizing the benefits of prevention of 
    disease through support of community prevention initiatives and 
                    promotion of good oral hygiene.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 3, 2009

Mr. Simpson (for himself, Mr. Ross, Mr. Price of Georgia, Mr. Hastings 
  of Washington, Mr. Terry, Mr. Kirk, Mr. Hensarling, Mr. Nunes, Mr. 
  Buyer, Mr. Mario Diaz-Balart of Florida, Mr. Young of Florida, Mr. 
   LaTourette, Mr. Tiberi, Mr. McCotter, Mr. Rogers of Michigan, Mr. 
    Whitfield, Mr. Rogers of Kentucky, Mr. Latham, Mr. Boehner, Mr. 
    Calvert, Mr. Kline of Minnesota, Mr. Goodlatte, Mr. McCarthy of 
 California, Mr. Pence, Mr. Cantor, Mr. Frelinghuysen, Mr. Kildee, Mr. 
   Barrow, Ms. Bordallo, Ms. Norton, Mr. Grijalva, Mr. Courtney, Mr. 
   Salazar, Mr. Boozman, Mr. Larsen of Washington, Mr. McNerney, Mr. 
 Pascrell, Mr. Akin, Mr. Sestak, Mrs. Miller of Michigan, Mr. Skelton, 
 and Mr. Lance) submitted the following resolution; which was referred 
                to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                               RESOLUTION

 
 Congratulating the American Dental Association for its 150th year of 
 working to improve the public's oral health and promoting dentistry, 
 supporting initiatives to improve access to oral health care services 
   for all Americans, and emphasizing the benefits of prevention of 
    disease through support of community prevention initiatives and 
                    promotion of good oral hygiene.

Whereas access to good oral health care is a vital element of overall health;
Whereas the American Dental Association works to improve access to oral health 
        care services that are essential to help ensure the health of the 
        American public;
Whereas the American Dental Association supports community prevention 
        initiatives and promotion of good oral hygiene;
Whereas the American Dental Association continually works to improve dental 
        technologies and therapies through research and adherence to sound 
        scientific principles;
Whereas ``The Journal of the American Dental Association'' is recognized 
        internationally as a leader in peer-reviewed dental science;
Whereas the American Dental Association encourages its membership of more than 
        157,000 dentists to donate their time, resources, and services to 
        providing charitable and uncompensated care;
Whereas dental practices provide over $2,000,000,000 in charitable and 
        uncompensated care to specific underserved populations annually; and
Whereas the American Dental Association advocates sufficient funding for Federal 
        dental research and military readiness programs: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the House of Representatives--
            (1) congratulates the American Dental Association for its 
        150th anniversary;
            (2) commends the American Dental Association's work to 
        improve the public's oral health as well as access to oral 
        health care for all Americans, especially low-income children;
            (3) recognizes the tens of thousands of dentists who 
        volunteer their time and resources to provide charitable and 
        uncompensated oral health care to millions of Americans; and
            (4) commends the American Dental Association's efforts to 
        keep American dentistry the best in the world.
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