Madam President. let me join with my colleagues on this issue in thanking the Senator from Georgia for withdrawing the amendment. It is possible to say that the concept of adverse wage is an anomaly unto itself. specific to the H2A program. That is not to suggest it is right. It is to suggest that it was there and it ratcheted up on an automatic basis to establish the wage base for H2A workers in the guest worker program. The Senator from California is right. As we began to negotiate and create what is now known as AgJOBS. which she and I reintroduced earlier this year. in that was a backoff from the adverse wage and a holding of the line for a period of time to level out. What the Senator from Georgia is attempting to do is establish a new wage rate. I think the Senator from California is right. we are not sure where it would go or what it would mean. I am going to stand here and say that is not to suggest a new wage rate is not the right way to go. to establish equity between H2A and nonH2A workers who are doing the same job in the field. or somewhere else in agriculture. But there ought to be a consistency. If we are going to bring large groups of guest workers inand we will. we always have. there are certain types of work only they will dothen I think we have to be sensitive to the uniqueness of that situation. But at the same time. it is important that we are sensitive to all of the other requirements we put upon the employer as a part of the total employment package. Is It housing? Certain other conditions along with the wage that they necessarily would not have to pay to a domestic worker who was doing comparable wage but was outside the H2A program? There is a disparity today. That is why we backed it off in the negotiations. H2A workers. by their definition. were becoming noncompetitive. Of course. in the environment in which we were working. they were becoming noncompetitive to the illegal who was in the market. So you have disparity across the board.