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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Today I rise in support of the Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act which will allow schools to offer both unflavored and flavored whole milk for students. Whole milk provides children with 13 essential nutrients for growth, development…

Let me repeat, these two important drugs, up to 15 times more expensive in the United States than in other countries.

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

If a person who's going to serve as the judge is advocating terrorism, or supports terrorism, or sexual misconduct, then that would be a disqualifier.

If a person who's going to serve as the judge is advocating terrorism, or supports terrorism, or sexual misconduct, then that would be a disqualifier.

Right. And so, you condemn what Hamas did to innocent Israelis on October 7th, and you condemn what terrorists did to New York on 9/11?

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.

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.

If anyone has aspirations to attack minority communities or indeed to attack the Jewish community here in America, they'd have to go through me first.