; Whereas insufficient sleep increases the risk of accidents, injuries, hypertension, obesity, diabetes, and depression; Whereas insufficient sleep in teenagers is associated with an increased risk of self-harm, suicidal thoughts, and suicide attempts; Whereas the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion at the Department of Health and Human Services seeks to increase the proportion of students in grades 9 through 12 who get sufficient sleep as part of Healthy People 2020, a Federal initiative to improve the health of all Americans; Whereas the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Medical Association, and the American Academy of Sleep Medicine recommends that middle school and high school start times should be 8:30 a.m. or later to promote student health and performance; Whereas data show that 83 percent of middle schools and 93 percent of high schools in the United States start before 8:30 a.m.; Whereas insufficient sleep in teenagers is associated with an increased risk of drinking and driving, texting while driving, and drowsy driving; Whereas the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration considers drowsy driving to be a profound impairment that mimics alcohol-impaired driving in many ways, including slower reaction times and impaired attention, mental processing, judgement, and decision making; Whereas the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety estimates that drowsy driving causes an average of 328,000 motor vehicle accidents in the United States each year, including 6,400 fatal crashes; Whereas drivers between 16 and 24 years of age are 80 percent more likely to be involved in a drowsy driving crash than adults who are 40 years of age or older; Whereas Congress established the National Center on Sleep Disorders Research in 1993 to foster the coordination of sleep and circadian research within the National Institutes of Health and other Federal agencies