If the gentleman will yield quickly on that point, there are a lot of people who are my constituents who say Congressman, why just two-thirds? I would rather it was three-fourths or five-sevenths. They want it to be as high a fraction as possible. I think this is a reasonable figure, and we need to strive very hard to get support for it and encourage our colleagues to vote for it.
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