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…. Right to Try laws. They are not promises that diseases will be cured or that new drugs will save lives. But they give people early access to therapies that stand a chance of curing or turning back their illnesses. It’s a humane and compassionate thing to do, though not uncomplicated. Pharmaceutical companies, understandably, are reluctant to give access to their medicines without the shield of a rigorous investigation and approval by the Food and Drug Administration. Is extremely difficult to provide liability protection for drugmakers, but I Indiana got it done. After we had passed the bill, I had told Jordan and his mom that if there was ever anything I could do for them to call me.

And they did. In 2018, they made their way to Washington to encourage Congress to pass a federal Right to Try law. It was already on our agenda; at a rally in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, during the presidential campaign, I took a question from an eleven-year-old boy named Zack Mongiello: "Will you and Donald Trump, when you are elected, will you support the Right to Try? My father and our friend Matt, they both have ALS, so they are dying? I told him we would take it to DC and get it done. I hadn't even talked to the president about it, but I knew he would support it, and he did.

During our second year, we worked with Congress; this time both parties participated, and the bill was passed. Huge credit was due to Oregon's Greg Walden, the chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, who worked through iterations of the bill and with patients, regulators, and drugmakers to create a law that would balance access to drugs that did not yet have FDA approval with liabil-ily protection for manufacturers and hospitals, and protect patients.

The final bill passed the House on May 29, bearing both Jordan's and

Zack's dads' names.

The president signed the bill in a small theater in the Eisenhower Erecutive Office Building across from the White House. Jordan, wear ing a suit and bow tie, was to Trump's left. After the president signed the legislation, he began handing out pens that he had used during the signing, a presidential custom. While the president shifted around, Jordan got up from his wheelchair and leaned in for a hug. Trump, busy passing out pens, didn't notice. Then Jordan went in for a hug again. Trump, who was addressing reporters, didn’t see it the second time. Jordan then played it cool and leaned on the desk, propping his chin on his hand. Then the president noticed him and gave him a big hug and a kiss. It was a sweet moment. Jordan and his mom, and Zack and his dad, had made it possible.