95th CONGRESS 
1st Session* 
H. RES. 131 
IX THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
January 19, 1977 
Mr. Ottincer submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 
Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce 
RESOLUTION 
Whereas unregulated research involving recombinant DXA is 
potentially devastating to the health and safety of the 
American people, 
Whereas the guidelines issued by the Xational Institutes of Health 
governing research involving recombinant DXA apply only 
to research supported by the Xational Institutes of Health, 
and 
Whereas the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare has 
the authority under the Public Health Service Act to make 
and enforce regulations to prevent the introduction, trans- 
mission, or spread of communicable diseases: Xow, there- 
fore, be it 
1 Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Rep- 
2 resentatives that the Secretary of Health, Education, and 
3 Welfare, pursuant to the authority of the Secretary of Health, 
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