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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Oversight of the department of Energy Research and development enterprise. Welcome, mr. Secretary. Were delighted youre here today. This committee has jurisdiction over the department of energys vitally important science and Energy Research and development activities. The laboratories and facilities so i hope we see you much more frequently from now on, and i look forward to working with you throughout this congress. With the budget season mostly behind us, id like to bring just a few minutes and a few items to your attention. Ill start with the good news which is that despite the administrations best effort to make draconian cuts across the board to deo research and Development Programs, most actually fared well in the house of representatives. Im particularly pleased to see the increases to the budget for arpae and the long Programs Office both of which have yielded truly transformative results for Energy Technologies of all types. Im also quite happy that the house supported a subst