Will there be identical cost-sharing requirements by the States?

Can you be more specific about what other things you are going to do in order to comply with the amount of money that you have if you do not do furloughs?

Especially when we are in an era of worrying about terrorist attacks and those kinds of things, are you going to be increasing the number of inspections for our foreign repair stations?

I just hope you pay attention to the West because we are hurting.

I think we are all very disturbed by the images of the prisoner of war (POWs), and I know their families here in this country are really--there is a lot of anxiety.

That makes it difficult for us, as we try and manage this.

I would just encourage you to stay in close touch with our families here who are watching news reports with a great deal of anxiety.

Well, I am deeply concerned about that.

I hope that you take a look at that, because there is a lot of disagreement on that.

When we wrote the No Child Left Behind, the teacher quality money was under the Teacher Quality State Grants.

Will you look at the minority report?

I am very disconcerted by the President's budget.

I know you are an educator. And you cannot believe that it makes sense to transfer students to schools that are overcrowded even to the point of causing health and safety concerns.

Do you not agree that fulfilling that kind of mandate will require significant investments in training and recruiting and retaining and testing teachers?

But you are not going to give us a formal request of any kind so that we know how the President wants to set these priorities?

I hope that you look at the language of the minority report.

With all due respect, let me just tell you that when we worked on the No Child Left Behind, the authorization for this requirement and this money were under the Teacher Quality State Grants.

I find the President's budget to have serious shortfalls.