Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Senator Voinovich, I appreciate your willingness to hold this hearing.

If you think you can get it into legislation, I am fine. I just think that is a bridge too far at this point in time.

Yes. You will hear from Clay Johnson, we have already got one set of standards that have been put forward by this PART review.

Absolutely. It is not the bigger share of it, as I noted in my presentation. But I think we have a credibility gap for us to be able to take on.

We thought it was too big of a bite to take, that if we got to this portion of the Federal budget, 25 percent was a good start.

I applaud your willingness to address this issue. This is one of those issues that most people just duck away from.

I mean, that is the challenge, getting the money up front and convincing people that it should be done.

Dr. Nathan, in your book you talk about this concept of shared facilities, which is a intriguing concept.

We have them all over the country.

It is up-front money that is the problem.

The reality is, as Senator Landrieu was saying, there is a funding limitation.

Well, we thank you very much. It has been very interesting and very enlightening, and we want to continue to work with you in the future.

that's why I was so happy in the last hearing to hear Secretary Powell say that, you know, he supports our trade bill.

I just, you know, would hope that working with the administration we can do better in this area.

I don't know any other way of doing it than to put some investment and some money into agriculture.

I, along with Secretary Powell, support the Haiti Economic Recovery Opportunity Act of 2004.

The single thing that would help me, and I believe other committee members the most, is if we could agree on some sort of report card about what the benchmarks are.

I do think that one of the Senate's, the Congress's under utilized great powers is the oversight responsibility.