concern is his amendment would strengthen, and there would be no question that all of the things that mr. kluda said would be applied to everything across the board in the ball. is that correct? >> my understanding that the procedures that you in the chairman's mark for verifying eligibility are similar to the procedures used in medicade. they are essentially correct. >> you said it strengthens. does it strengthen or keep it the same? >> i missed his point on how it strengthened. >> would you mind repeating it, senator bingaman? >> what i was trying to say was that having a coordinated system for identifying folks when they come in, and routing them to the right place would, i thought, help solve the concern that i think the senator from nevada is trying to raise here, which is that someone is going to sneak through the cracks and not be properly identified or verified for eligibility before they get their benefits. it seemed to me that having it done in a coordinated way, which is what my amendment tries to do, would help solve that. >> i think to the extent that there is sort of one gateway i