[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 9]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 13066]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




              COMMENDING THE FRATERNAL ORDER OF THE EAGLES

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                          HON. DAVID LOEBSACK

                                of iowa

                    in the house of representatives

                        Wednesday, July 14, 2010

  Mr. LOEBSACK. Madam Speaker, I rise today to thank the Fraternal 
Order of the Eagles for their pledge to donate $25 million over the 
course of the next five years in order to support diabetes research at 
the University of Iowa.
  The Fraternal Order of the Eagles has recognized that diabetes has 
become an increasingly serious problem in this country, affecting over 
23 million Americans. Their pledge to fund diabetes research at the 
University of Iowa represents an extraordinary commitment to 
researching better prevention and management techniques to improve the 
health of our nation.
  The University of Iowa is consistently at the forefront of innovative 
research, and through this new partnership with the Fraternal Order of 
the Eagles, I am confident that we can discover new ways to reduce the 
devastating effects of diabetes.

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