House Proceeding 06-24-09 on Jun 24th, 2009 :: 0:23:05 to 0:26:25
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Ken Calvert: i applaud his leadership as well as congresswoman roybal-allard on this important issue. and i yield back. mr. price: i reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman from kentucky. mr. rogers: i yield three minutes to a very hard-working member of our subcommittee, mr. calvert. the chair: the gentleman is

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Speech By: Ken Calvert

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Ken Calvert: recognized. mr. calvert: i would like to thank the chairman, chairman price and ranking member rogers for crafng the homeland security appropriations bill and i appreciate the recognition of the air and marine operations center, which is located in my congressional district. it has been foremost in aviation law enforcement.

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Ken Calvert: it crdinates our operations in the united states. it plays an integral role in protecti us from attack from drug smuggling across our borders. i was disappoi extension of e-verify was reduced from the president's request of three years to t years. the use overwhelmingly passed a five-year re-authorization

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Ken Calvert: last year and i think many people would support a permanent re-authorization of e-veri. i offered an amendment that was repeatedly told that a re-authorization of e-verify will be part of a comprehensive immigration reform bill, which simply makes no sense. a re-authorization of a voluntary program that has

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Ken Calvert: existed for 13 years should not be part of immigration reform debate. perhaps my friends on the other side of the aisle are confusing re-authorization with mandatory participation, which i support. howeve the thousands of businesses that use e-verify to comply with existing federal law and the two states that have made it mandatory deserve assurance that the program will

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Ken Calvert: continue to be available. furthermore, i would like to clear up some misconceptions about the e-verify program, which seem to be endlessly repeated. e-verify is 99.6% accurate. that's right. only .4% of tenth tative confirmations are in error of the data.

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Ken Calvert: e-verify is free to employers and doesn't cost anything other than the minutes to sign up for the program to use the system. my friends on the other side repeatedly state that 10% of naturalized citizens receive a confirmation. the statistic is now down to 6.1%. so that means 93.9% of

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Ken Calvert: gnatalized citizens are immediately cleared to work. of the 6.1%, they only need to call a toll-free number to recktive eye that information. owner that, i was disappointed that an amendment that i offered was ruled out of order. my amendment would have allowed members to vote on whether the

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Ken Calvert: executive order requiring federal contractors to use e-verify should not be delayed again. the executive order has been delayed three times for dubious reason secretary napolitano has stated her support for e-verify and people running e-verify have declared they are ready for the federal contractor requirement.

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Ken Calvert: when it comes to doing business with the federal government, which is funded by the american taxpayer, the use of e-verify should be mandatory. i would like to reiterate my support for the bill but with