Currently. Mr. McCARTHY. Right as of today, currently, you are only allowing 65,000 for brothers and sisters. That is not a mother, and that is not a child. Right now, today, there is more than a 30-year wait. So what we proposed is that system is not working. So a brother and sister has their own family. So instead of taking those up, why don't you put those into the spouse and the children? So what we offered to you--and maybe they didn't quite understand it--you would speed up the process for parents, your spouses, and your children. I always thought that was very reasonable.
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