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Reauthorizing the special Diabetes Program before it expires on september 30th and supporting more research. This is about an hour, 45 minutes. The hearing will come to order. Good morning, everybody. Its wonderful to welcome all of you here to washington, d. C. This is our 11th childrens congress. Its always a privilege to work with jdrf families whose commitment to promoting lifechanging research to prevent, treat and ultimately cure type 1 diabetes inspires me. I want to welcome not only our Ranking Member senator casey and senator scott from florida, but also we have a special guest, that is the cochair with me of the Senate Diabetes Caucus, senator Jeanne Shaheen 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 wa
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