It lays out a series of steps toward a final decision on this important issueand will give the process more than enough time to address all relevant concerns. I reach this conclusion on the Nickles amendment without prejudice to the decision we will be called upon to make in 6 months time. I know. for example. that all the public health authorities are unanimous in believing that AIDSIHIV should come off the immigration list of communicable diseases. I also know that according to all the scientific evidence. AIDS is not transmitted by casual contact. Thats why our last HHS Secretary. Dr. Louis Sullivan. and his Department had already signed off on a rule eliminating the classification of HIVpositive individuals in immigration law. So there is a great deal of evidence tilting us in the direction of repealing this exclusion. That is why it is especially important for us to have some time in which to consider the objections.
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