Sen. Collins the hearing will come to order. Good morning, everybody. It is wonderful to welcome all of you here to washington, d. C. This is our 11th childrens congress, and it is always a privilege to work with jdrf families whose commitment to promoting lifechanging research to prevent, treat, and ultimately cure type i diabetes inspires me. I want to welcome not only our Ranking Members, senator casey and senator scott from florida, but also we have a special guest , and that is the cochair with me of the Senate Diabetes Caucus, senator Jeanne Shaheen of new hampshire. So thank you for joining us here today as well. Let me shorten my opening comments this morning, because we do have votes beginning at 11 00, and i want to make sure that we have time to hear from all of our witnesses. As i said, i want to begin by welcoming the more than 160 children who have traveled to washington from all across the country to share your personal stories. You will tell us what it is like to live w
Sen. Collins the hearing will come to order. Good morning everybody. It is wonderful to welcome all of you here to washington, d. C. This is our 11th childrens congress and it is always a privilege to work with jd rs families whose commitment to promoting lifechanging research to prevent, treat, and ultimately cure type i diabetes inspires me. I want to welcome not only our Ranking Members, senator casey and senator scott from florida, but also we have a special guest and that is the cochair with me of the Senate Diabetes Caucus, senator jean of New Hampshire. Thank you for joining us here today as well. Let me shorten my opening comments this morning because we do have votes beginning at 11 00 , and i want to make sure that we have time to hear from all of our witnesses. As i said i want to begin by welcoming the more than 160 children who have traveled to washington from all across the country to share your personal stories. You will tell us what it is like to live with type i diabet
We will discuss the survey tomorrow morning at 7 am eastern on cspans washington journal with cliff young, president of the public affairs. Be sure to read the complete results of the survey on Space Exploration now online c span. Org. Next, a look at the latest research and Treatment Options for type i diabetes with the National Institutes of health officials. Other witnesses at the senate aging hearing include actor Victor Garber and a nineyear old girl from maine testifying about their experiences living with diabetes. This runs one hour 45 minutes. The hearing will come to order. Good morning everybody. It is wonderful to welcome all of you here to washington dc. This is our 11th childrens congress and it is always a privilege to work with jd rs families whose commitment to promoting lifechanging research to prevent, treat, and ultimately here type i diabetes inspires me. I want to welcome not only our Ranking Members, senator casey and senator scott from florida, but also we have
This runs one hour 45 minutes. The hearing will come to order. Good morning everybody. It is wonderful to welcome all of you here to washington dc. This is our 11th childrens congress and it is always a privilege to work with jd rs families whose commitment to promoting lifechanging research to prevent, treat, and ultimately here type i diabetes inspires me. I want to welcome not only our Ranking Members, senator casey and senator scott from florida, but also we have a special guest and that is the cochair with me of the Senate Diabetes Caucus, senator jean of new hampshire. Thank you for joining us here today as well. Let me shorten my opening comments this morning because we do have votes beginning at 11 00 and i want to make sure that we have time to hear from all of our witnesses. As i said i want to begin by welcoming the more than 160 children who have traveled to washington from all across the country to share your personal stories. You will tell us what it is like to live with
Good morning. The Senate Health education labor and Pensions Committee will please come to order. Todayerer holding a hearing on our nations growing Mental Health and Substance Use disorder crisis. I will have an Opening Statement following by senator murkowski. Then we will introduce our witnesses. I believe Ranking Member will join us a little later as well. After the witnesses give their testimony, senators will each is have five minute farce for a round of questions. While we werent able to have it open to the public, live video is available on our Committee Website and if you are in need of accommodations, you can reach out to the committee or office of congressional accessibility services. We continue to see a high number of new covid cases, so we are having this hearing in a larger hearing room where we can be socially distanced limiting the number of people who are in the hearing room, experience depression, anxiety and other Mental Health disorders. Drug overdoses were on the