House Proceeding 06-24-09 on Jun 24th, 2009 :: 0:08:40 to 0:09:55
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Ken Calvert: headquarters gives itself under this bill. so let's give americans at least a fighting chance at a job and ensure that our government and u.s. businesses are employing legitimate ican workers.

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Speech By: Ken Calvert

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Ken Calvert: i california, mr. calvert. mr. calvert: madam speaker, as the original author of e-verify i'd like to report tonight we have over 135,000 employers throughout the united states that are using e-verify every day successfully. millions of employees have gone through that system to make sure that the work force they

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Ken Calvert: are employing is a legal work force. asr employer in the restaurant business, i can tell you i wish i had that system available to me. adding this $50 million will assure to make sure that e-verify is accurate. it's already 99% accurate. we could -- that's pretty good for government work. we ce it even more accurate. we need to make sure jobs in

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Ken Calvert: this country goes to people who are here legally. this is an opportunity for this house to vote for this motion to recommit that will make sure, make sure that americans that are looking for jobs will have that opportunity to find one.