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Now is not the time to eliminate the GAO review.

Allowing this GAO review to sunset puts veterans' health care in jeopardy. We cannot take that risk.

We owe it to our current and future veterans to ensure the VA never again runs low on resources to provide health care to our veterans.

Change is necessary if we are to position the VA to meet its responsibilities and fulfill its mission in the coming years.

My bill recognizes VA's current efforts and intended to support these efforts while making sure Congress has access to the information we need to do our job.

Before we budget and appropriate dollars, we must plan in programs.

They ensure requested resources are sufficient to meet the current and future needs of veterans.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman, for holding this very important hearing this morning.

Putting Veterans Funding First would end the uncertainty by ensuring VA has its full discretionary appropriation well before its fiscal year begins.

I think we would all agree that our veterans deserve better than this.

Once more, political calculations having nothing to do with our veterans are putting our collective support for funding for their benefits and services at risk.

When I first met families whose children had Type 1, I knew that I had to get involved.

Earlier this year, we passed legislation to extend the Special Diabetes Program which provides $150 million a year above and over the regular appropriations for Type 1 diabetes research.

Since I founded the Senate Diabetes Caucus, we have been successful in working together in a bipartisan manner to triple the funding for diabetes research.

Mr. Chairman, I just want to thank you so much for holding this hearing.

I particularly want to thank our delegates, my constituent Quinn, who did such a great job.

That is, indeed, absolutely critical research.

I am very alarmed by a recent CDC study that shows that Type 1 diabetes among young people rose by a troubling 23 percent between 2001 and 2009.