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I urge you to keep it up. Our hope for a full life depends on it.

Diabetes is a lifelong condition that does not discriminate.

Thank you very much for leading this effort.

What matters is that we all work together to focus on the estimated three million Americans with Type 1 diabetes.

Let me be clear, both VA and DoD have a responsibility to end the backlog by 2015.

I take this lack of personal engagement as a sign that they care less, that they are not as committed.

The Department's resistance to the President's open standard agenda appears to be founded largely on an incorrect assumption.

Throughout the first term, the Department's actions have been inconsistent with the President's agenda.

If we really want to get these systems integrated, if we really want to get the backlog cleaned up, then we need to start passing appropriations bills.

And I don't only say that without two secretaries--also the President of the United States who made it very clear in this first term he wants both agencies to work together.

I am told that strategies have been modified and collaborative efforts are ongoing for both records transfer and IEHR.

Let me be clear. Both the VA and the DoD have a responsibility to end the backlog by 2015.

I would submit to you that the government has struggled to fulfill the sacrifice, you know, trust to care for those who have served and sacrificed in defense of our Nation.

I take this as a lack of personal engagement, as a sign that they care less, that they are not as committed as they have been.

None of us up here are going to take our foot off the gas when it comes to ensuring progress is made on the backlog.

I rise to speak on an issue of significant importance to the forest products industry in Maine. I am pleased to be joined here by my colleague from Maine, Senator King. We have both heard from a number of our constituents in Maine who are…

Ensuring the Department of Veterans Affairs has the proper infrastructure and facilities to provide safe, effective, quality health care to veterans is a priority of mine and of this Committee.

Expending our hard-working taxpayers' dollars on authorizing costly capital investment projects should never be a matter of routine.