Border Protection, Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005
BORDER PROTECTION, ANTITERRORISM, AND ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION CONTROL ACT OF 2005 -- (House of Representatives - December 16, 2005)
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AMENDMENT NO. 17 OFFERED BY MR. BRADLEY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
Mr. BRADLEY of New Hampshire. Mr. Chairman, I offer an amendment.
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Mr. BRADLEY of New Hampshire. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
Mr. Chairman, I would like to begin by thanking both chairmen, Chairman Sensenbrenner and Chairman King, for working with me, as well as the Rules Committee on this amendment.
Mr. Chairman, I am offering what I expect is a very simple amendment that will require reporting to Congress at the 1-year mark and at the 2-year mark of the Employment Eligibility Verification System that is going to be implemented as a result of this legislation.
This is important to have this report so that we as policymakers in Congress have the information as to how the verification system is working. Is it working as intended? Is it user-friendly? What type of response are businesses, both small and large, having with this system? Is it used primarily online by telephone? How many businesses utilize it? How are the penalties being implemented? All of these kinds of questions we need to have data on with this reporting that I am proposing in this amendment.
Mr. Chairman, I hope that my colleagues will support this amendment; and, once again, I thank the chairmen.
Mr. Chairman, I yield such time as he may consume to the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Sensenbrenner).
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Mr. BRADLEY of New Hampshire. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
Once again, the intention of this amendment is to make sure that we as Members of Congress, the policymakers that are going to implement this verification system, have the most accurate information with which to react and possibly make mid-course corrections should they be warranted at the 1-year mark and at the 2-year mark.
While it does not fix the process, it certainly is designed to give us all the information that we need to make sure that it works in the most user-friendly, cost-effective, efficient way for businesses in our country, and I urge my colleagues to support this.
Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.
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