In fact. I am sympathetic to that argument. I never thought that mostfavorednation status was the best tool that we had. and yet when we come with a proposal like this. one that I have visited with Senator WELLSTONE about. and many of my colleagues about. when we come with one that denies visas and denies travel and per diem for those involved in these terrible practices. then I hear people saying that is the wrong tool to use. we should not use visas. This is the very least that we can do. If we are not willing to deal with the $60 billion trade deficit that we give Chinatrade imbalance that we have with that countrythen the least we can do is come back on this issue of visas. travel expenses. and raising the issue in our diplomacy and diplomatic efforts with the Chinese Government and make this something more than mere rhetoric. I believe that these amendments are modest. that they are temperate. that they are well thought out. They have been repeatedly debated. not only in the House of Representatives but on the floor of the Senate as well.