Congress finds the disease kills one American every 36 minutes
To require the Government Accountability Office to produce a report on esophageal cancer, and for other purposes, section 2, Sec. 2.
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Congress finds the disease kills one American every 36 minutes
The document says “should”Who acts: CongressHow: statuteSec. 2 in the PDF
What the document says
“esophageal cancer kills 1 American every 36 minutes every day”
The third of the section's eleven findings. Congress states the death rate as a rate over time rather than a yearly total.
What the document actually says
“esophageal cancer kills 1 American every 36 minutes every day”
That sentence, in plain words
Congress says this cancer kills one person every 36 minutes. It says that goes on all day, each day.
What this is about
That works out to about 40 deaths a day. Congress puts the number here to show the size of the harm.
No action is recorded against this proposal. That is not evidence that none has been taken, and nobody has yet read it against the record. See what the tracker does not yet cover.
Gerald E. Connolly Esophageal Cancer Awareness Act of 2025, Public Law 119-96, sec. 2, 140 Stat. 834 (2026). https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ96/html/PLAW-119publ96.htm
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“Congress finds the disease kills one American every 36 minutes,” Gerald E. Connolly Esophageal Cancer Awareness Act of 2025, section 2, Sec. 2. Read the Mandate, https://readthemandate.org/gerald-e-connolly-esophageal-cancer-awareness-act/proposal/sec02-one-death-every-36-minutes/ (retrieved October 10, 2026).
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