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The Senate Health Education Labor and Pensions Committee... overwhelmingly approved the SDP Reauthorization Act that I introduced with Senator Shaheen.

I started the Bipartisan Senate Diabetes Caucus that very year.

We simply must pass legislation to reauthorize the SDP.

Your advocacy for the life-changing research to prevent, treat, and one day cure diabetes--type 1 diabetes--motivates me.

I have long promoted diabetes research as one of my top priorities.

Define 'active.' It was 2021. Let's see. We are 2 1/2 years later. That is not very active.

So you said 'actively,' I will take you at your word and consider that a commitment to move on this matter in the immediate future.

It is a damn shame that we have to pass a second bill to implement a bill that we already passed.

Just issue the damn rule. And if you are going to issue the rule, do it.

Ultimately, we want a cure. And that is what we are all working toward.

I love the fact that we are also talking about...the road to get to the cure, to make sure that that road is an affordable road.

This drug, teplizumab, for example, which works in the immune system to actually stop the immune system from damaging those insulin producing cells.

Thank you, Senator Collins and members of the committee, for all you are doing to help us.

We need Congress to take the next step this year.

I started the Bipartisan Senate Diabetes Caucus that very year.

We simply must pass legislation to reauthorize the SDP.

Your advocacy for the life-changing research to prevent, treat, and one day cure diabetes--type 1 diabetes--motivates me.

I have frequently said that every time I chair the Children's Congress, which I have done many, many times, I leave with a sense of renewed commitment.