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The article focuses on the Senate hearing for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation's (JDRF's) Children's Congress in Capitol Hill, Washington D.C. on June 19, 2007. The hearing aims to encourage the government to increase funding for type 1 diabetes research. Among the Children's Congress delegates who testified to make the Congress understand the importance of funding the research for a cure of diabetes include Caroline McEnery, Caitlin Crawford, and Tré Hawkins.