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H.R. 6633, The Employee Verification Amendment Act of 2008

  • This item is from the 110th Congress (2007-2008) and is no longer current. Comments, voting, and wiki editing have been disabled, and the cost/savings estimate has been frozen.

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H.R. 6633 would evaluate and extend the basic pilot program for employment eligibility confirmation and to ensure the protection of Social Security beneficiaries.

== Detailed Summary ==

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(Log inEmployee Verification Amendment Act of 2008 - Amends the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 to editextend the wikiemployment eligibility confirmation pilot programs (which includes the E-Verify basic pilot program).

Directs the Commissioner of Social Security
and be the firstSecretary of Homeland Security to provideenter into a detailed summaryfiscal year agreement which shall: (1) provide funds to the Commissioner for such programs' full costs in quarterly advances; and (2) require an annual accounting and reconciliation of costs incurred and funds provided. Provides for funding continuation in the bill!)absence of an agreement.

Requires that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) conduct studies regarding: (1) erroneous tentative nonconfirmations under the E-Verify program; and (2) such program's effects on small entities.

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== Status of the Legislation ==

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Latest Major Action: 7/29/2008:8/1/2008: Referred to HouseSenate committee. Status: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, andReceived in addition to the Committees on EducationSenate and Labor,Read twice and Ways and Means, for a periodreferred to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction ofCommittee on the committee concerned.Judiciary.
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Shane Steinfeld

September 2, 2008, 12:47am (report abuse)

Even if this program is 99.5% effective, as some in the media have claimed, that would still result in over 7 1/2 million people being either granted or denied work incorrectly. I'd sure hate to be one of the millions of people who are flagged as "illegal" incorrectly. Imagine having that perfect job filled by some other applicant, while you spend who-knows-how-long trying to untangle a federal bureaucratic blunder.

This program is a mistake, specifically because it's inevitably prone to so many mistakes.

Government programs have never been 99.5% effective at anything. Even if this were the first, 7 1/2 million mistakes would be nothing short of disastrous.

WRJ

September 16, 2008, 11:52am (report abuse)

I don't know where Shane is getting 7.5 million people having problems, as that is .5% of 1.5 billion people. There are currently 154 million people in the US workforce. If everyone one of them was checked with E-verify today, there would be 790,000 initial non-confirmations, mostly due to the social security admin having the wrong data, which also means you are not getting credit for your social security taxes paid. A simple visit will fix this, your employer rechecks and you are confirmed.

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