Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may
consume. Mr. Chairman, this is an amendment that requires that new hires under
this appropriations bill are verified under E-Verify before they can go
to work. It ensures that those funds that are made available in this
appropriations bill will not be used for new hires unless they use the
E-verify program as a responsibility that the Federal Government
requires as a matter of law. Current law requires the Federal Government to use E-Verify to
enhance enforcement of Federal immigration law in all hiring. However,
it has been brought to my attention that it isn't consistent across the
different departments. We need to ensure that it is. It is in response
to those concerns that I offer this amendment to require E-Verify. I will just describe E-Verify. Conditional to the hire, employers who have a prospective employee
may go onboard the Federal internet site, which is the E-Verify site,
and type in the valid information or perhaps the presented information
of the prospective employee that has been offered a job. Should they
clear E-Verify, you punch in what I just euphemistically call name,
rank, and serial number. It is a short piece of data that includes
birth date, name, and often birthplace. Then that goes into the
internet site. It comes back to you and lets you
know that you can legally hire the individual that is identified in
this data. That is E-Verify. Hopefully, in this Congress, the Federal Government will pass and
make E-Verify mandatory for private sector employers. Hopefully, we
will do that in this Congress. But the Federal Government needs to, Mr. Chairman, address this, and it needs to do so with our own employees. That is what the King amendment does. It ensures that E-Verify is used
by our own employees. Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
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