[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 50 (Thursday, April 18, 1996)]
[Senate]
[Page S3634]
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                          AMENDMENTS SUBMITTED

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       THE IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY ACT AMENDMENT ACT OF 1996

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                      FAIRCLOTH AMENDMENT NO. 3674

  (Ordered to lie on the table.)
  Mr. FAIRCLOTH submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him 
to the bill (S. 1664) to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to 
increase control over immigration to the United States by increasing 
border patrol and investigative personnel and detention facilities, 
improving the system used by employers to verify citizenship or work-
authorized alien status, increasing penalties for alien smuggling and 
document fraud, and reforming asylum, exclusion, and deportation law 
and procedures; to reduce the use of welfare by aliens; and for other 
purposes; as follows:

       At the appropriate place in the bill, insert the following 
     new section:

     SEC.   . REVIEW OF CONTRACTS WITH STANDARDIZED CITIZENSHIP 
                   TEST CENTERS.

       (a) In General.--The Attorney General of the United States 
     shall investigate and submit a report to the Congress 
     regarding the practices of test centers authorized to 
     administer the standardized citizenship test pursuant to 
     section 312.3(a) of title 8, Code of Federal Regulations. The 
     report shall include any findings of fraudulent practices 
     by the centers.
       (b) Preliminary and Final Reports.--Not later than 90 days 
     after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Attorney 
     General shall submit to the Congress a preliminary report of 
     the findings of the investigation conducted pursuant to 
     subsection (a) and shall submit to the Congress a final 
     report within 275 days after the submission of the 
     preliminary report.

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