And of course it promotes tourism. And certainly folks involved in the travel industry. and maybe it is businessmen coming over for a 2week or 2month period of time. Actually. under the visa waiver program. the maximum amount of time that can be spent here under that program is 90 days. In the year 2005. Mr. Speaker. 15 million people came to the United States under the visa waiver program. At first it was just a temporary program in 1986. and then it was expanded to more countries. And finally it was made permanent in about the year 2000. this visa waiver program. But we began to realize maybe there was a little bit of security risk. and so we said. look. we want to make sure these passports that we are just looking at and stamping and letting folks come in from these socalled friendly countries. that these are legitimate passports. that these are not fraudulent documents. Those of my colleagues. and most of you are either parents or grandparents. and you have gone through those teenage years yourself and with your children and grandchildren. and you know it is pretty darn easy to get a fake drivers license.