Mr. Speaker. I was a conferee on section 2007 of this bill dealing with an amendment to the Immigration and Nation ility Act. I wanted to take a moment to explain a successful conclusion to that. even though I must say that I oppose much of this bill. The part that I dealt with. though. In the conference from the Committee on the Judiciary deals with the exclusion of aliens who have the HIV virus. As agreed to in the conference. the bill incorporates the language of the McCollumSolomonRoukemaSmith bill on HIV exclusion. which was H.R. 985. and which 82 other Members have cosponsored. Under section 212(a)(1)(A) of the Immigration and Nationality Act. certain noncitizens or aliens are excluded from the United States because of healthrelated conditions. One of the primary healthrelated grounds of exclusion is an infection with a communicable disease of public health significance. As the Members are probably aware. the Clinton administration indicated early on this year that they were going to no longer recognize HIV under this category. and the Senate passed as an amendment to this bill a provision that Senator NICKLES offered that would have placed the HIV clearly as a communicable disease. and did a number of other things involving the requirement of certain testing that would have to take place. and certain waivers that would be looked in by statue.
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