This request won the unanimous consert of the committee. I am grateful to my colleagues for the quick and determined response to aiding our Italian friends and allies. This legislation was no sooner hurriedly introduced when more than a dozen of my colleagues requested to be added as cosponsors. Along with this bill. I hope the President will also relax visa requirements to allow victims to join their families here in the United States. Those victims desiring to join relatives in the United States should not be confronted by additional hardships in their courageous attempts to recover their losses and rebuild their lives. Mr.