In the history of our leading up to this legislation. the Judiciary Committee held a hearing on the program in late 2011 and at every hearing since in which Secretary Johnson has testified. the issue of EB5 has come up. The Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. as well as House committees. have had hearings on this program. In 2013 the Senate debated an immigration bill that was over 1.000 pages long. In a few short months. we voted that bill out of this body. Parts of the bill that we were working on to be included in this omnibus appropriations bill included EB5 reforms that we talked about in that immigration bill of 2 years ago. Then in 2014. the House Judiciary Committee voted out a bill that included some changes in the program. The bill would have raised the investment level to $1.6 million.
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