[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 17754]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




    URGING SUPPORT FOR THE EMPLOYER VERIFICATION ACCOUNTABILITY 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, I am rising this morning to talk about a 
piece of legislation that I have recently introduced. It is H.R. 3262; 
and it is called EVAA, the Employer Verification Accountability Act.
  Mr. Speaker, one of the things we are hearing in our district that is 
such a problem is illegal immigration, the impact that illegal 
immigration has on jobs, on the economy, on our district. And this is 
one of those pieces of legislation that is designed to help us have 
another tool to fight illegal immigration.
  Very simply, what it does is this: The 1986 Immigration Enforcement 
Act puts in place fines for employers who knowingly and willingly hire 
illegal immigrants to work in their businesses. This act would prohibit 
them from negotiating those fines down and require them to pay the 
$10,000 fine per violation.
  I would like to commend this legislation to the body and invite the 
Members to join me cosponsoring H.R. 3262.

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