yeah, yeah. >> hinojosa: which is... i mean, kind of... when i was reading about this, it, like, goes back to the importance of having free public art and music, because it can change someone's life. >> exactly. and that was... my friend marvin, who is no longer alive, unfortunately, may he rest in peace, i went... i lived in apartment 12a, which was the opposite side of the building, so you couldn't see on east 153rd street, where the concert was happening. so he calls me up, i go down to his apartment, 9a, and we're looking out the window. and i go, "hey, man, we've got to go downstairs." and he goes, "no, man, come on." you know, "why don't we stay up here, man? besides that, we could throw spitballs at people and everything." >> i go, "no, no, no, i want to get near the music." so we go down, and by the time we get to the front, tito puente in all his majesty is playing one of his signature songs which he composed in 1955. (singing in spanish) (vocalizing instrumental parts) and you hear the brass, and then when he p

hinojosa to introduce our first team. >> thank you, mr. chairman. as the representative from the 15th congressional district of deep south texas, is truly an honor for me to welcome the discovery montessori school of edinburg texas to the house science and space technology committee. as the ranking member of the subcommittee on higher education, we work closely with this committee on science and space and technology because together we hope that by 2020 we can be able to generate and accomplish a goal that we set out by the president, and that was to have an additional 100,000 engineers here in our country. i am delighted to be here to congratulate all the students being recognized from throughout the country, but especially i congratulate the students, teachers, parents, coaches and administrators of the discovery montessori school for winning first place for grades k. through three of the 2011 toshiba and sdk explorer -- exploravision science competition. what an extraordinary accomplishment. they're winning project, intelligence streets, reduces

hinojosa as your congressman, you're very lucky.represents his district well and, jack, we're pleased you brought your mother with you today, by golly. [laughter] actually, our second witness, mrs. brenda conwell and her son, jack, they're representing the first place national winning team for the fourth through sixth grade age group. their winning project, the heads-up helmet, is a military helmet designed to protect soldiers on the battlefield. joining jack and his mother are his teammates, abby porter and -- [inaudible] from talbert elementary school in sidney. jack is home schooled and attends virginia virtual academy. we also welcome the team's coach from the academy, mrs. penny harrison. [inaudible] i now yield two minutes to the gentleman from michigan, mr. peters, to introduce the third team of witnesses. >> thank you, mr. chairman. it's my pleasure to be here today to introduce two of my constituents, claudia cooper and her coach and teacher, amy. claudia's an outstanding student at west hills middle school in west bloomfie

smith: i offer this legislation on maff of myself and representatives way car, hinojosa, roskam, and rush. a numb of american hospitals have great difficulty attracting nurses. these include hospitals that serve mostly poor patients in inner city neighborhoods and some hospitals in rural areas. for example, st. bernard hospital in chicago is the only remaining hospital in the area of over 100,000 people and almost all of its patients live in poverty. st. bernard almost closed its doors in 1992, primarily pause of its inability to attract registered nurses. congress passed the nursing relief for disadvantaged areas act to help hospitals like st. bernard. it created a new temporary registered nurse visa program with 500 visas each year that allowed nurses to stay for tee years. to petition for a foreign nurse, an plofere had to meet four conditions. it had to be located in a health professional authorityage area, have at least 190 acute care beds and a certain employer of the patients had to be medicare patients and fourth a certain percentage had to be medicaid patients. the h1c progr