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

We need Congress to take the next step this year.

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

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

We need Congress to take the next step this year.

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

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.

Sixty Senators signed a letter, that Senator Shaheen and I authored, to Senate leaders advocating for this program.

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.

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

Sixty Senators signed a letter, that Senator Shaheen and I authored, to Senate leaders advocating for this program.

We simply must pass legislation to reauthorize the SDP.

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.

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.

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 started the Bipartisan Senate Diabetes Caucus that very year.