I was extremely alarmed to read the December 20, 2023, press release from the U.S. Attorney's Office.

let me begin by wishing all Americans and my colleagues here in the Congress a very happy and peaceful holiday season. Unfortunately, for the people in Israel and Palestine, that will not be the case. This is not a peaceful season for…

And if the system provides barriers, as Senator Sanders said, to drugs that could improve your care and your life and your health, then we haven't succeeded in our mission.

I consider the high cost of prescription drugs to be one of the great crises facing our healthcare system.

We are going to have to take on 1,800 well-paid lobbyists from the pharmaceutical industry here and all of the campaign contributions that they make.

We need Congress to move swiftly to enact the SDP and SDPI funding, as contained in S. 1855.

I thank you Chairman Sanders, Ranking Member Dr. Cassidy, and Members of this Committee for advancing S. 1855--bipartisan legislation led by Senators Susan Collins and Jeanne Shaheen to renew the SDP and SDPI.

The assurance of long-term funding is also important to attract new talent to this field and to maintain a pipeline of future generations of scientists to conduct T1D research.

We need Congress to move swiftly and enact the STP and STPI funding contained in S. 1855.

We have got to make certain that the treatments available to people with diabetes are affordable for all Americans.

If just 10 percent of people with obesity on Medicare took these drugs, it could cost Medicare up to $27 billion a year.

These two important drugs, up to 15 times more expensive in the United States than in other countries.

Now is the time for us to seriously combat the type 2 diabetes and obesity epidemics in America.

Today, we are going to be discussing one of the major health crises in America, and that is the diabetes epidemic.

We need Congress to move swiftly to enact the SDP and SDPI funding, as contained in S. 1855.

These two important drugs, up to 15 times more expensive in the United States than in other countries.

I thank you Chairman Sanders, Ranking Member Dr. Cassidy, and Members of this Committee for advancing S. 1855--bipartisan legislation led by Senators Susan Collins and Jeanne Shaheen to renew the SDP and SDPI.

We need Congress to move swiftly and enact the STP and STPI funding contained in S. 1855.