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I thank the gentleman for yielding to me. and I want to commend the gentleman on his amendment. I also want to commend the gentleman for his work leading this Congress early on in 1986 to adopt the NP5 Program and to recognize the adverse effect on certain countries with respect to the admission policy. I would say to the gentleman that his initial work has borne great fruit in H.R. 4300 in the use of his adversely affected definition for a transition program and in the adoption of a permanent diversity requirement in our immigration law going forward. Without the gentlemans leadership. I doubt we would be at this point in the process of being fair to people from all over the world.