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I deeply thank the Senator from Ohio. With the remaining minute. let me just say I am very pleased it was withdrawn. I. too. have read the language. and the very troubling part is the part that says "resistance to a coercive population control program" deems that that person then fits the status of refugee. We are dealing with China. a country with a population of 1.2 billion people. We are also dealing in this amendment with India. again with one of the largest populations in the world. We are dealing with an amendment that would apply. as of course it should. to all the countries in the world. When we do this. we should bear in mind that there are already young Chinese singleunmarriedmales who are even now claiming asylum on the basis that one day they will want to have a family and more than one child and thus come under this coercive birth policy. But if you are going to make a blanket application for refugee status. it reminds me so much of an American Secretary of State who visited China several years ago. He raised issues about their policies and slave labor and coercive birth policies and their immigration policies. which were very strict. When he finished. the Premier asked the Secretary. "How many millions do you want?" I can tell you. if this amendment. in any form or this form. were to come to passand I deeply appreciate the withdrawal because it was not in orderI suggest that there will be millions of people who. under this language. will qualify. We should remember that this amendment would also apply to tens of millions of personsmale and femalein India. who have undergone population control proceduresvasectomies and tubal ligations.