Chairman. if the gentleman will yield further. let me submit to the distinguished chairman that if we keep the number of slots that we now have. they would be woefully inadequate to deal with the international trade that we now have. I have an international bridge at Laredo that is supposed to be open 24 hours a day. The lines are tremendously long coming out of Mexico and going into Mexico simply because we do not have the Customs and Immigration personnel. Therefore. we are not open 24 hours a day and this country is losing a tremendous amount of revenue. This is being pennywise and poundfoolish. when we do not have the adequate personnel to increase this countrys revenue.
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