Mr. President. this amendment will permit the Department of State to continue to charge and collect a fee for the issuance of machine readable visas in specific countries around the world through fiscal year 1996. The Department may collect up to $125 million worth of fees this year alone. It also authorizes the Department of State to use the moneys collected to offset the costs of diplomatic and consular activities overseas. In the fiscal year 199495 State Department authorization billPublic Law 103236--the Committee on Foreign Relations authorized the Department to charge and collect these fees up to a total of $107 million.