[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 104 (Tuesday, August 2, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: August 2, 1994]
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                 THE NEVER-ENDING WAR AGAINST DIABETES

  (Mr. HAYES asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. HAYES. Mr. Speaker, in some ways the continued fight against 
diabetes has made great strides since I was a child and would peer into 
the lower rungs of the refrigerator to look at my grandmother's syringe 
with curiosity and wonder what the little bottles contained. In others, 
it has meant continued frustration.
  For my nephew, a juvenile diabetic, it has meant frustration, without 
any clear path toward health, no matter how hard he tries.
  As Members have noticed today, several of us have gotten together to 
urge consideration of the war against this horrendous disease that 
afflicts over 13 million Americans, and even more frighteningly so, 
over half of that number will not even know they have the disease until 
its debilitating effects may have gone too far.
  Mr. Speaker, we cannot honestly and adequately say we have adequately 
improved health care or made reforms until we want to confront 
diabetes. We owe that collectively as Members of Congress not just to 
our families but clearly and even more so to yours.

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