The Chambliss amendment creates a federally mandated wage base for American agriculture. Some will argue that we have done it in a couple of other areas. but most of us will say the market ought to work. It was only in the unique status of H2A that we had a different kind of wage base. I will argue today. and I think appropriately so. that we are setting an entirely new standard for 70 percent of the American workforce. Instead of allowing us to make sure that it fits right in the program. looks at the diversity. looks at the kind of representation that is reflected all over the United States when it relates to where you are working. how you are working. the type of work you are doingis it piecework. are you doing it by the amount produced instead of by the hour of workall of that kind of thing works today. and I am not so sure it is not effectively distorted by the proposal which is being offered by the Senator from Georgia. That is why I hope my colleagues would stay with us and stay with what is in the bill and in the provision that we call AgJOBS. that rolls backon 40.000plus workers qualified under the H2A program. rolls their wage back to the 2002 level. freezes it for 3 years. while the Department of Labor. working with American agriculture. can get this right because I am convinced that the unintended consequences of now mandating a Federal floor. if you will. to American agriculture is not where we want to go. If we want American agriculture to transition across this chasm. to get its workforce legalized. as it wants and as the Senator from Georgia and I want. then we have to make sure the transition which allows that to happen effectively uses this tool. the blue card. which will allow that kind of transition to go forward in a way that causes us to adjust. We cant take the blue card off the table.