Of the 66 counties in the First Congressional District of Kansas. twothirds of those have been designated as medically underserved. I work hard almost every week to try to assist communities and hospitals in obtaining foreigntrained physicians in order to try to satisfy these needs. Thirtyfive foreigntrained physicians have been admitted and are practicing in the First District in Kansas under this J1 visa program. We have another dozen applicants pending to fill a very desperate need. What we should be doing instead of utilizing money not to train physicians. we should be paying hospitals and physicians to train physicians who will then fulfill these needs in rural and other underserved areas of the country.