It wont. I dont think it will be. and the folks who are involved in agriculture dont think it will be. All that would be left to our farmers and ranchers will be the H2A program. and the revisions that Senators CRAIG. FEINSTEIN. BOXER. and KENNEDY make to the H2A program are actually detrimental to the future success of that program. I have talked to farmers. as late as the day before yesterday. I had a group of farmers from all over the country who were in my office. and every single one of them uses the H2A program. What they tell me is the program. as they have used it. is cumbersome. It is expensive. But it works. And in the areas of the country where farmers have used the H2A program. the labor shortage issues are not as acute as in those areas apparently such as in California and Idaho. where they use illegals crossing the border. and where now the border is being tightened up and they are feeling a pinch because they do not use legal workers. In my part of the country. I went to our farmers who complained about not having a quality pool of workers from which to choose. And when they used illegal workers. and they had the INS come in and check on them. the illegals scattered from one end to the other. all of a sudden. and they were left naked and unable to harvest their crops. I said: What you have to do is get in compliance with the law. You have to use H2A. irrespective of how inconvenient it is. irrespective of how bureaucratic it is. and irrespective of how expensive it is. if you want to be legal and if you want to have that quality pool of workers from which to choose. By and large. farmers in my part of the world are now using H2A. and they are finding that exactly what we thought would happen is happening. They do not have to look over their shoulder every year to see if ICEnow it is ICEis coming in to check their workers. They know they are here legally. They know they are going to have to pay them a good wage. They know they are going to have to provide them with housingall the things that H2A provides. And they are willing to do that because they do have a quality pool from which to choose. Now. finally. I point out that even though H2A is not perfectit is cumbersome. it is costly. it subjects employees who use it to lawsuitsin those areas where H2A is used. they are not experiencing the shortage that others have found. So I think. rather than grant a large adjustment of status to illegal workers. we ought to sit down at the table and talk about ways we can make the H2A program more workable for our farmers. I am happy to sit down with my friends from California and Idaho and see if we cannot work through this. But let me say there are some fundamental problems with AgJOBS in addition to the adjustment of status provision. which does grant a pathway to becoming legal. a pathway to citizenship for those people who work in agriculture in this country under that program for a period of 2 years.