Lithuania is leading one of the provincial reconstruction teams. These countries are doing everything that we are asking them to do as a nation. as part of the coalition of the willing. How does this relate to visa waiver? Well. we have other allies who arent part of the coalition of the willing. who already have this venue of visa waiver. So what kind of message are we telling these new emerging democracies. those that are. by percentage of soldiers. committed by far outstripping some of the larger countries that are part of our alliance? We say. these countries have this visa waiver process. but you cant have access to that. and I would say that that sends a terrible signal that we. in essence. now are asking some of our strongest allies. and we are discriminating against them. And the point that really. the point about the amendment is that Chairman SENSENBRENNER. I think. is going to come down and speak on this amendment. We disagree on some of this visa waiver debate. I would like to see it happen now. He wants to proceed on the plan with the State Department which says there has got to be a road map. Lets bring in these new countries. but let them meet these requirements. requirements like recidivism. Get their numbers down. Process like biometric passports. things that countries that have visa waiver now arent even required to do. So when you pull the money and freeze it from the developing of the road map. then what you are. in essence. doing is stopping the encouragement of people to do the very things we want to do to secure our borders. So. with that.