Bipartisan congressional spouses tackle cancer prevention, and leave politics out

Patti Garamendi chairs the congressional spouses club. She recently attended a Capitol Hill reception with her husband, Rep. John Garamendi, D-Calif. to tout a bipartisan project aimed at cancer prevention.Patti Garamendi chairs the congressional spouses club. She recently attended a Capitol Hill reception with her husband, Rep. John Garamendi, D-Calif. to tout a bipartisan project aimed at cancer prevention.There's an exclusive club in Washington, where politics is left at the door.

"It changes your life," McGovern said of her daughter's diagnosis."But there was so much love and gratitude from both sides of the aisle that came our way and lifted us up. And so, again, this is personal for us, but unfortunately, it's personal for almost every single family, not only in the Congress, but across the country."

Capito served as the first male president of the board of the spouses group in 2021. He got to know high profile male spouse well — Doug Emhoff, when his wife - then Senator Kamala Harris — attended orientation."For whatever reason, at the very first breakfast, we kind of connected and you know, we don't see each other a lot."

Capito invited Lisa McGovern recently to see a mobile lung cancer unit designed to reduce high rates of the disease in West Virginia. The program received a $25,000 grant from the foundation. Another spouse raising awareness is Martha Hill, a lawyer and wife of Arkansas Republican French Hill. In her state the problem is the lack of specialized care for cancer patients, and many have to travel to Texas or Oklahoma.

"What's wonderful about the congressional club and this program is that it does foster connections on a bipartisan basis amongst spouses," Hill says.

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