We are doing that in this bill. In addition. a portion of this initiative that was embraced today by the President. as I indicated. is exactly the same as this. The President said. "The Border Patrol is drastically understaffed. breathtakingly understaffed." and our initiative attempts to correct that. Those were quotes from the President. I believe he is acknowledging he made a mistake in his budget when they recommended cutting 93 positions and making no increases of personnel. He changed his mind. We accommodated that in advance. and provided $10 million more for the FBI for enhanced counterterrorism. including the establishment of a second hostage rescue team. And the State Department would also receive $10 million to upgrade and automate its visa processing capability in order to halt entrance into this country of undesirable aliens who may attempt to engage in terrorist activities. Frankly. we cannot afford to have anything but the best when It comes to counterterrorism. when it comes to computer capability. It has to be as automated as possible regarding visa processing. All the capability we can add to it must be there. and we have to develop a uniform system. Hopefully. we are starting down that path.
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