House, Senate support Childrens Dental Health Month

House and Senate members offered congressional resolutions expressing support for Children’s Dental Health Month and honoring the life of Deamonte Driver, a 12-year-old Maryland boy who died Feb. 25, 2007, of complications from an untreated oral abscess.

Sen. Benjamin Cardin (D-Md.) introduced S. Continuing Resolution 8 with cosponsor Sens. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.), Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.), Susan Collins (R-Me.) and John D. Rockefeller, IV (D-W.Va.) A companion measure, H.Con.Res. 56, was offered by Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) with cosponsor Reps. Kathy Castor (D-Fla.) and Mike Simpson (R-Idaho), a dentist.