House panel recognizes March 2025 as colorectal cancer awareness month and urges screening

The House Appropriations Committee unanimously approved House Resolution 127 to recognize March 2025 as colorectal cancer awareness month.

"House Resolution 127 is to recognize, March 2025 as colorectal cancer awareness month. I this is my resolution. I wanna first thank my colleagues, Representative Gallagher, Representative Confer, co sponsoring this resolution, with me, today," the presenter said. The presenter urged residents to seek medical attention for persistent digestive symptoms: "If you are, having problems with your bowels, if you're feeling constantly bloated, it may not be what you ate the night before. If you constantly have these issues, you may need to go and see your primary care physician and talk to them about the problems that you're having with your bowels. One of the fastest growing groups of new diagnosis for colon cancer are young people, millennials and younger. So it is imperative if you are having a problem with your digestive system that you go and see your primary care physician because that doctor's appointment could actually save your life. So, every opportunity that I get to talk about colon cancer, sorry, not sorry. You're gonna hear me talk about why screening is so important."

Representative Gallagher made the motion to call up House Resolution 127; Representative Khan seconded. Chairman Harris asked for negative votes and recorded none. The resolution was passed by the committee unanimously; no roll-call tally was included in the transcript excerpt.

The transcript records only the committee’s ceremonial recognition and a public-health appeal from the resolution’s presenter. The committee did not record amendments or additional legislative instructions in the provided excerpt.