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On the recordOctober 29, 1999
I think the Senator has done a good job of indicating these cuts are related to real people, people who get sick. They are not numbers. They are not statistics. It was a few months ago at the West Front of the Capitol that I was here with Miss America. There has been a new Miss America in the last few weeks. The 1998 Miss America is a diabetic. She was out there because she has hope that what we are doing at the National Institutes of Health will allow her and the millions of other people who are diabetic to be cured. This will slow up the grants to these people who, we are told, are on the verge of a breakthrough so children and others with diabetes can look forward to the date when they will no longer have to take the insulin shots, sometimes three times a day. Isn't that right?
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Harry Reid
Democratic · Nevada

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Discussing the impact of funding cuts on diabetes research and patients during Senate debate.

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