The presiding officer the senator from tennessee. Mr. Alexander i want to join in this a little bit because i recognize two things about the senator from oklahoma, one, hes been out front in trying as the senator from maryland said get value for the taxpayers dollar and second, hes working in a cooperative way to help us get a result. Those are two great characteristics in a body of 100 people that operates by unanimous consent. Im grateful for that. On the first point i agree with the Early Childhood money. We really have about 18 billion there. From various streams of federal dollars that are aimed at children below 5 or 6. Then we have state dollars, then we have local dollars, then we have private dollars, and weve grappled with ways to try to make sure we spend that more effectively. One way is to emphasize centers of excellence like nashville or denver or jersey city where they try to put all that money together. Im committed to work with senator harkin and senator mikulski to ta