American agriculture will go through another devastating year in the field. and real management choices will be made. management choices no longer to plant and grow in the United States. no longer to put fresh vegetable crops in the field in December to be harvested in February to supply our great and abundant markets and the needs of our consumers. This is a very real issue today and a very real problem. That is why on December 4 this coalition sent to this Congress an urgent message. a plea. It said: Please listen to us. Support and pass comprehensive agricultural worker reform. Give us an H2A program that works. That is what we must accomplish because even in all of our debates this is not going to happen overnight. We wont get to this for several months. and when we do. it will take time working with the House.