Mr. Chairman. I rise in suppor of the gentlemans amendment. I want to direct my remarks to a littleknown subsidy enjoyed by the sugarcane industry the H2A Agricultural Guestworker Program which brings 10.000 Caribbean workers into the United States each year to harvest sugarcane under conditions that are the shame of this Nation. This program began in the early 1940s. when the U.S. Department of Justice indicted Florida sugarcane growers on peonage countsthat is. the U.S. Government found that the growers were conspiring to enslave black Americans almost a century after the Civil War. In lieu of peonage. the Florida sugarcane industry now relies on bonded labor in another form: foreign guestworkers who are brought into this country to work for particular growers. and who can remain in the United States only while their employment with those growers continue.