It will allow an effective entry point to provide the foundation for future economic potential for many of our young people. This provision that we are now debating has been supported by the President. the leaders in his administration. and by the leadership in the Congress. Concern is being expressed today about the provision which would exempt from the training wage migrant or seasonal agricultural workers. In my opinion. that exemption is appropriate. First. I would like to point out that the bill does not exempt agriculture workers who otherwise met the standards of this law from their eligibility for a training wage. Many of the people described by the Senator from Texas would be excluded from the definition of a seasonal or a migrant worker. A migrant worker has to be one who works away from his normal home. A seasonal worker is one who works for a prescribed period of time on a temporary basis. If in agriculture. as in any other covered area. a person is employed as a permanent employee where the expectation is that this employment will be an ongoing one. where the very skills that are going to be provided through the training program will have a sustained application. then the training wage would be applicable to them as it would to anyone else.