Senator announces 10 a.m. HHS committee briefing to hear University of Iowa cancer-study results

Senator Warmie announced that the Health and Human Services Committee will meet at 10 a.m. in a session open to the full Senate to receive first-phase results of a University of Iowa cancer study funded in part with money the Senate allocated last year.

"We are going to welcome the researchers from the University of Iowa who did the cancer study, the first phase results that, come from the money that was allocated from this body last year," Senator Warmie said on the floor, urging colleagues to attend for a question-and-answer session. Warmie said she and Senator Weiner coordinated the invitation and asked senators to notify either of them if they plan to attend.

The announcement framed the session as informational: the introducer encouraged attendance and Q&A but the transcript records no formal committee action or vote during the floor announcement. The Senate subsequently set the chamber at ease to allow caucusing and other business to proceed.

Further detail on the study results and any staff briefings will be provided at the committee meeting itself, not on the Senate floor recorded in the transcript.