he is in macao. i see. i saw him -- i saw him in hong kong while was there. we have all been working on this for very long time. there are some new prisoners that just came out of china to account for the treatment they received. this list on my poster is a list of heroes. you are, too. thank you for your courage to turn out here today to stand into the capital, to hold us accountable to our own values and to continue to work together to remember the massacre, to get a public accounting of it, and can i say just one thing in closing? it was shocking to me. on the way there, perhaps you saw the frontline documentary on tiananmen square. this icon is seared in the minds of people throughout the world. and they had, in this documentary that they showed it to students at beijing university, and those students had no idea what this was a photo of. they said, what is that? is it art? did you put that together? this is an indication of how the chinese government has suppressed what happened on june 4 in the days leading up to it. this was actually a couple of days a

. >> senator macao ski. >> aye by proxy. >> senator kennedy. >> no by proxy. >> 10 ayes, 13 >> number 783. coburn number 73. >> this is just another level of trying to keep us accountable. since we don't want the states to do it, and we don't want to give the states flexibilities, how about if we find that a work force program is ineffective, allowing the secretary to say so and redirect the funds to where the program is effective? that's all this amendment does. if the secretary says this isn't accomplishing anything, we're throwing money out of the door, i would like to redirect this money to a program that's working. >> it just gives the secretaries the authority. >> mr. chairman? >> we trust the secretary for everything else in this bill. why can't we trust the secretary to make that evaluation? >> mr. chairman? >> well, first of all, the end of the line legislation calls for the creation of a data analysis center so these work horse programs will be tracked very closely. one of the problems that gao has commented on repeatedly it the lack of data, the lack of standards and benchm