the projects be chosen, how will the department validate the data such as ridership and project kansases submitted by applicants and what oversight will occur and how will it be carried out to ensure that projects come in on budget and on time. i hope congress will monitor how this program is implemented and i hope the program succeeds. and that when we look back five years from now and after spending as much as $13 billion as is envisioned by the president, that we'll see great progress. to me, it means trains that serve real needs that are constructed on budget and on schedule, filled with passengers making the routes economically viable. i want to thank our panelists for appearing today and sharing their testimony. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you. the chairman of the committee, senator rockefeller. i want to make him a general, but -- >> thank you, chairman lautenberg. first of all, i want to apologize. i'm not on the judiciary committee. the white house is anxious to have all senators meet with judge sotomayor before recess, i have been assigned a time at 3:15. that's kind of f

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pay for it, end up promoting a situation more based on quality than quantity that increases many kansases and increases the chances for fraud and abuse. in pennsylvania today there was news in the paper of millions of dollars, again, of abuse in the system. what is so important is if you have the patient and the doctor in charge of their care, you incentivize quality, make sure the doctor has the timely information through electronic medical records. those are things we are not doing. look at other clinic the mayo clinic, university of pittsburgh medical center, ones that are focused on we're going to change the quality of care you see the costs go down. that's part after the -- part of the focus we need to have. with that, i yield back to my colleague. mr. kirk: i want to talk about some solutions we're going to put forward. what's lost in the debate is we agree with the president we should lower cost. we agree we should expand health care. we think we have a better way. many times in the partisan debate, people can say we have no alternative. so we've spent about 90% of our time coming