Rep. Fred Upton (R), chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce, and Rep. Diana DeGette (D), chief deputy whip, join Mike and FasterCures Executive Director Margaret Anderson (center left) to kick off FasterCures' 2014 Partnering for Cures conference in New York. Upton and DeGette are advocating the bipartisan 21st Century Cures initiative that they believe will accelerate the pace of cures in America through legislation to be introduced in Congress early in 2015.