We need to focus on academic curriculum.

If we could expand the capacity of our schools of nursing, it would be a major step in increasing the nursing workforce.

Are we going to mandate medicine, which I don't believe Congress or any arm of it should, or any part of our government.

We applaud Senators Brown, Collins, Schumer, and Vitter for their leadership in sponsoring this critical legislation.

We are going to be doing things late at night and when we do things late at night, it is not that we want to pull fast ones.

I don't think you want to tag it to, in any way, payment.

We don't want them to go to Iran.

Well, and we wouldn't because it is not tied to a payment system.

We appreciate the continued leadership of committee members Senators Kennedy, Brown, Hatch, Enzi, and Bingaman on this issue.

First of all, I just want to thank you all for being here, and I also want to thank you for what you do every day.

But it has been wimpy.

It is like everybody talks about it but nobody does it.

It kind of followed on to what we talked about last night and drew the distinction between best practices which the academies often identify in a much broader scope.

It was the goal of Senator Kennedy, when he established these working groups, to make sure there was quality.

What are your plans to make sure that the goals of HOPE VI are accomplished and that revitalizing the country's most distressed public housing continues to be a top priority for HUD?

Where HOPE VI has been most successful, it has transformed communities and transformed the lives of people living in public housing.

If they have the capacity, the proliferation issue is going to be there, and we know that.

We are moving under legislation that was, I believe, passed last year, to designate a new special envoy for North Korean Human Rights.