That statement does not come from the administration. There is an individual with one of the think tanks here in town who has gone through this proposed set of criteria, proposed set, because it is not in the law, the proposed set of criteria that would be used and said only three would qualify. But the only thing in the law is the income. That is the only thing in the law.
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