[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 60 (Thursday, April 23, 2009)]
[House]
[Page H4691]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     NEW EMPLOYEE VERIFICATION ACT

  (Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas. Last night my colleague Gabby Giffords of 
Arizona and I re-introduced our work site enforcement bill, the New 
Employee Verification Act, H.R. 2028, or NEVA. Our bill would create 
the Nation's first mandatory employment verification system for all 
U.S. employers.
  The act achieves three important objectives. It ensures a legal work 
force, it safeguards workers' identities, and it protects Social 
Security.
  Employers want, need and deserve a reliable employee verification 
system, and we want to give it to them.
  Now's the time for the Congress to create a new way forward that 
prevents illegal immigrants from taking jobs from American citizens. I 
urge my colleagues to cosponsor H.R. 2028. When immigration reform 
happens this year, this bill ought to be part of it.

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