[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 17531]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




              H.R. 2049, FEDERAL CONTRACTORS SECURITY ACT

  (Mrs. BLACKBURN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. BLACKBURN. Mr. Speaker, the Washington Post carries an editorial 
this morning on illegal immigration, and it talks about the Senate 
beginning to take up that issue today. I look forward to our discussion 
and continued work on that issue here in the House. It is an issue that 
is of tremendous importance to my home State of Tennessee.
  I would like to call the body's attention to a bill that I filed that 
deals with immigration reform, H.R. 2049, the Federal Contractors 
Security Act. What this does is to require those companies contracting 
with the Federal Government to use the basic worker verification 
program to ensure us, the taxpayers, that the individuals working for 
them are in the country legally and that they are who they claim to be.
  Mr. Speaker, this is a national security issue, it is a homeland 
security issue, it is an issue of tremendous importance. I encourage 
the body to look at H.R. 2049, and I encourage our leadership to take 
aggressive action to fight illegal immigration.

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