Speaker. I yield myself such time as I may consume. I am pleased to have reached a bipartisan agreement to extend the J1 visa waiver program for another 2year period. This visa waiver program is critically important to bringing essential medical services to residents of underserved rural and urban areas. including my own district in Detroit. Michigan. The J1 program allows some foreign doctors who have completed their medical training in the United States to remain here to practice medicine for 2 years if they will serve patients in a region of the country that the Federal Government defines as medically underserved.