With the leadership of Senator Collins and our many other diabetes champions on Capitol Hill, the Federal Government has been a key partner along our path toward a cure for diabetes.

Asa, I loved it when you said that you have diabetes and it is a disability, but that you are not disabled.

Thank you, Hannah. That was great.

I will remember you, and I will continue to do everything that I can to advance the research that will indeed someday lead to a cure.

Thanks to your work, we were able to get the research dollars tripled in the last decade.

When you go see your Senators and your Members of Congress, you help them understand just how important this is.

I cannot cure this disease, I cannot make it better for my kids. I need help.

One of the things I have learned about juvenile diabetes is it affects not just the child... but it has an impact on the whole family.

Thank you, Senator Collins, Senator Lieberman, and other Members of the Committee, but specifically Senator Collins for being such a champion for all of us with diabetes.

Help us keep up the momentum behind this research by ensuring the renewal of the Special Diabetes Program.

Do you anticipate the administration presenting a plan to ensure the safety of commuter airlines?

It's instructive to read the Defense Science Board's report on the causes of the cost growth.

I think that's a real affordability issue that we should take another look at.

The funding's essential, correct, to bring this about?

Does this budget have support for the development of small business clusters?

there is still a lot of small businesses that are having their lines of credit terminated, that are having loans called, and this infuriates me

Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

This doesn't make much sense to me.

Senator Collins has been working with this group for some time.

I look forward to working with you to give small businesses the support and assistance they need to emerge from this recession strong and nimble.

What is the status of efforts to establish an economic stimulus lending program, a secondary market guarantee authority for pools of SBA 504 program first-lien mortgages, and SBA secondary market lending authority to make loans to…

I have consistently supported increased funding for the section 8 program.

I would like you to get back to me on that issue because your testimony says that it was a matter of cost, not technical qualifications.

People are very interested in tracking that spending, of making sure that it is achieving the results that all of us hope that it will.

When the Department of Homeland Security was established, Congress recognized the important role that technology must play in securing our Nation.