Recognizing the history of the drug diethylstilbestrol and the harm it has caused, and for other purposes.

HRES 342 is a symbolic resolution recognizing the harmful history of diethylstilbestrol (DES), a drug prescribed to 5-10 million pregnant women in the U.S. from the 1940s until 1971 to prevent miscarriages. It urges the House to designate an awareness week for DES, acknowledge the drug’s link to rare cancers in children (known as "DES Daughters"), and call for restoring funding for the DES Follow-Up Study and a formal FDA apology to affected families. The resolution does not create new laws or directly affect anyone but formally documents the harm caused by DES and the FDA’s lack of accountability. It focuses on commemoration and urging action, not policy changes.