Ill STAT. 2750 CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS-JUNE 5, 1997 (2) mortality rates for individuals suffering from prostate cancer, skin cancer, and kidney cancer continue to rise; (3) the mortality rate for African American women suffering from diabetes is 134 percent higher than the mortality rate of Caucasian women suffering from diabetes; (4) asthma rates for children increased 58 percent from 1982 to 1992; (5) nearly half of all American women between the ages of 65 and 75 reported having arthritis; (6) AIDS is the leading cause of death for Americans between the ages of 24 and 44; (7) the Institute of Medicine has described United States clinical research to be "in a state of crisis" and the National Academy of Sciences concluded in 1994 that "the present cohort of clinical investigators is not adequate"; (8) biomedical research has been shown to be effective in saving lives and reducing health care expenditures; (9) research sponsored by the National Institutes of Health has contributed significantly to the first overall reduction in cancer death rates since record keeping was instituted; (10) research sponsored by the National Institutes of Health has resulted in the identification of genetic mutations for osteoporosis; Lou Gehrig's Disease, cystic fibrosis, and Huntington's Disease; breast, skin and prostate cancer; and a variety of other illnesses; (11) research sponsored by the National Institutes of Health has been key to the development of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scanning technologies; (12) research sponsored by the National Institutes of Health has developed effective treatments for Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL). Today, 80 percent of children diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia are alive and free of the disease after 5 years; and (13) research sponsored by the National Institutes of Health contributed to the development of a new, cost-saving cure for peptic ulcers. (b) SENSE OF THE SENATE.— I t is the sense of the Senate that this Resolution assumes that— (1) appropriations for the National Institutes of Health should be increased by 100 percent over the next 5 fiscal years; and (2) appropriations for the National Institutes of Health should be increased by $2,000,000,000 in fiscal year 1998 over the amount appropriated in fiscal year 1997. SEC. 325. SENSE OF THE SENATE REGARDING CERTAIN ELDERLY LEGAL ALIENS. It is the sense of the Senate that the provisions of this resolution assume that— (1) the Committee on Finance will include in its recommendations to the Committee on the Budget of the Senate changes in laws within the jurisdiction of the Committee on Finance that allow certain elderly, legal immigrants who will cease to receive benefits under the supplemental security income program as a result of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (Public Law 104-
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