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

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

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 road is an affordable road.

I think that is so important. It would also have important patient protection so that you do not have to go through prior approvals and all of the rigmarole that we hear about so often.

When diabetes is cured, each and everybody in this room is going to be a part of making that happen.

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

I think that is so important. It would also have important patient protection so that you do not have to go through prior approvals and all of the rigmarole that we hear about so often.

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

I think a cure is the destination, and I think we all agree upon that as the destination.

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.

I think that is so important. It would also have important patient protection so that you do not have to go through prior approvals and all of the rigmarole that we hear about so often.

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

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

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

I think a cure is the destination, and I think we all agree upon that as the destination.

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.

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