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.Mr. SANTORUM. Mr. President, I rise today to recognize the fundraiser Hot Pink Pittsburgh, a collaboration of Family Health Council and Pink Ribbons Project Dancers in Motion Against Breast Cancer, which will increase the awareness of breast cancer, its treatment and prevention. The event will raise funds to provide essential health care services to a growing number of uninsured women in Pennsylvania.

   Hot Pink Pittsburgh will take the stage of the Byham Theater on October 2, 2000 to showcase performers and increase community awareness and appreciation. Dancers from the Pittsburgh Ballet Theater, Dance Alloy, Shona Sharif African Dance and Drum Ensemble and Hope Stone Dance as well as members of the Pittsburgh Symphony will donate their performances for the benefit.

   This event will help Family Health Council provide annual exams, breast and cervical cancer screening and health education. Early detection and treatment gives women their best chance of breast cancer survival, while cervical cancer is preventable with screening and treatment.

   Family Health Council, founded in 1971, serves more than 100,000 women and their families in western Pennsylvania every year. As a non-profit organization you provide gynecological and obstetric care; breast and cervical cancer screening; comprehensive nutrition services; nationally recognized teen pregnancy prevention resources; domestic and international adoption; and applied research in women's health. Family Health Council also administers a network of more than 20 community-based health care organizations. Your organization is supported by patient fees, private and public grants, and individual gifts.

   I commend the efforts of the Family Health Council and Pink Ribbon Project Dancers in Motion Against Breast Cancer as well as those so dedicated to increasing the awareness of breast cancer, its treatment and prevention.

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