Liberia. and Rwanda. Adoption of the provisions in this conference report should enable Congress to play a greater more informed role in formulating our overall policy toward these and other U.N. peacekeeping operations. I would like also to address the issue of visa processing and the antiquated. unreliable and user intensive. microfiche systems that the State Department uses in over 100 overseas posts to maintain the list of aliens ineligible for entry. This list includes names of terrorists. and those with criminal histories. The embarrassing case of radical sheik Omar Abdul Rahman getting a United States travel visa. despite being on a microfiche lookout list in Khartoum. Sudan. should be all the evidence we need that the system is broken and badly needs repair. Not only must we modernize the outdated equipment. but we must have the State Department resume checking the FBI criminal record histories of those who seek to immigrate to the United States and have lived in the United States previously. Not only should the State Department find moneys to modernize its equipment as the conferees recommend but it needs to resume these FBI criminal record checks promptly before we have another possible even more embarrassing visa case. as we did with Sheik Rahman with his tourist visa in Lastly. at the appropriate time. I will rise to support the chairman of the Subcommittee on Commerce. Justice.
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