George Voinovich: “I hate to ask for your help one more time, but any contact you could make with your new Governors would be very helpful.”

And you are anticipating that you are going to have more money because of the appropriations, but you have to hold that in abeyance until the appropriation is made?

There are some wonderful things that are happening in committees in the Senate.

We enjoyed working with you.

We still believe that identifying long-term funding for all of the reform efforts would help, especially as the money becomes tighter and congressional decisionmakers such as yourself have to prioritize.