Gabriella Miller Kids First Research Act Signed Into Law After Girl Sends Tear-Jerking Video (WATCH)

President Barack Obama signed the bipartisan Gabriella Miller Kids First Research Act after 10-year-old Gabriella Miller who died of brain cancer so that other sick children have a better chance of beating the illness, according to the Washington Post.

Obama signed the into law on Thursday for $126 million in federal money to be spent over the next decade to research pediatric cancer and other childhood disorders, the Post reported. Miller's parents and brother watched Obama sign the bill.

Gabriella pushed Congress to pass the law in an emotional video posted to YouTube before she died last October, according to the Post. In the video, Miller tell lawmakers to "stop talking and start doing."

In the video, Gabriella's said her objective would continue even after her death as she tearfully recognized her own mortality and called on others to continue her work, the Post reported.

"If I go, if I lose my battle, then I want other people to carry on with the war," Gabriella says in the video. "They're going to win this war."

The legislation will attempt to eliminating taxpayer funding for political conventions and redirecting it to pediatric research at the National Institutes of Health the Post reported. Congress must fund the research in future spending bills.

"In effect what happened was Congress put down the battle axes for a moment and took a step forward by investing research dollars in pediatric disease," Representative Peter Welch told The Post after attending the signing of the bill. "It took this truly inspirational effort by this young girl."

Goals make dreams come true," Gabriella's mother wrote in a Facebook post urging Gabriella's supporters to continue to work toward raising awareness and funds for cancer research, according to the Post. "Please join us to help make her goal a reality."

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