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I yielded to the gentleman and he used about 2 minutes of my time. I want to make my point here. That is that unless we adopt language similar to that which the gentleman from California . has suggested. we are going to have a whole host of service organizations out there who work exclusively with illegal immigrants. who are going to be eligible to get national service volunteer grants. The whole question before us in the Baker amendment is do Members want organizations which are exclusively working with illegal immigrants to be receiving Federal money and Federal volunteers as a part of this program? I do not thinks so. I think that we are attempting. if we are going do something with national service. to have them working. have those organizations working with U.S. citizens. to be working with good. American citizens who are the middle class. and all kinds of people. and we do not want these volunteers to be working with the illegal immigrants. And so we have to adopt the Baker amendment in order to get us there. Otherwise. the bill which is before us Is a bill to help organizations which are exclusively working with Illegal immigrants.