I appreciate the privilege to address this issue under these circumstances. And I make no pledge about taking advantage of the situation. but I will stay with the attitude and the comity that the chairman demonstrates always. and that is that I come to the floor here to rise in opposition to this bill. First I want to explain that premium processing is in the event that the normal application for the visa isnt processed in time. then the performing arts organization. which is a 501(c) nonprofit organization. can then apply. If they want to pay $1.000 premium to turn that around quickly. they can do that today. So. Im looking at this thing from the perspective of this is a feebased system that we have. We fund USCIS through feebased. and we had hearings in the committee and we brought that forward and its clear. So. it becomes a zero sum game. If you decide that youre going to provide a premium processing service for one organization. that means the burden of the cost of that gets distributed across all the other applicants.
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