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Of course. we grow a lot of our own brain power. but increasingly we have been insourcing. Mr. President. of the 100 American Nobel Prize winners in physics. 60 of them are immigrants or children of immigrants. Go down to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. which is the largest science laboratory in America. The top three positions are held by people with green cards. foreign nationals. There is a man at Oak Ridge who is one of those three who is in charge of the United States effort to recapture the supercomputing lead in the world. which we lost to Japan. He is a citizen of India. He has a green card. So Senator GREGO and Senator CANTWELL. I think. are exactly right. They are saying that in this large immigration bill where we are talking about bringing millions of more people into the United States under certain conditions. twothirds of the lottery tickets for 50.000 people ought to go to the highly educated persons from these underserved countries who then can come to our country and help us create a standard of living. It is in our interest to do this. I am glad the Indian citizen is in Oak Ridge.