On an average day the State Department processes some 23.000 applications for passports. On this day and each of the days this Government has been shut down no application for passports are being processed. On an average day the State Department issues some 20.000 visas to visitors who spend an average of $3.000 for a total of S60 million. but for this little girl who is 10 years old this is no average day. They are not just numbers. they are people. When we talk about the common good for the multitude. we must remember those multitudes are made up of individual people who make up this great America.