With all of the budgets and bills that are passed in the Senate each year, it’s not too often that Senators have the opportunity to see the results of their work first-hand. This afternoon, I had just such an opportunity.The Kansas BioScience Initiative, perhaps my most important accomplishment in the Kansas Senate, helped the University of Kansas develop and implement a new cancer-fighting drug, Nanotax. After years of research, this drug was finally announced. I had the pleasure of joining K.U. Chancellor Hemenway, legislative colleagues and other cancer activists at the presentation of Nanotax. While it still must undergo more testing, it’s already shown a tremendous amount of progress.
It is proposals like the BioScience Initiative, where a few motivated legislators sat down and crafted an innovative policy designed to produce tangible results that really can make a difference. Knowing that I played a part in the fight against cancer makes my belief that much stronger that with some hard work and a few good ideas, Congress actually can be changed for the better.
Nick Jordan
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