Sessions To Majority: Allow Vote On E-Verify Amendment To Unemployment Bill

Thursday, January 9, 2014

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Ranking Member of the Budget Committee and a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued the following statement today after filing an amendment to the unemployment benefits bill:

“This commonsense amendment would simply require that E-Verify be used by employers to prevent corporations from hiring illegal workers and therefore undercutting employment opportunities for American workers. If our colleagues in the majority are serious about helping jobless Americans then they should both allow this amendment to come to a vote and support it when it does. Senate Democrats must decide whether their fidelity is to special interest groups, politics, and big government, or to everyday U.S. workers struggling to get by in a low-wage economy with high unemployment.”
BACKGROUND:

Majority Leader Reid recently said that the middle class was “under siege.” The amendment filed by Senator Sessions would help beleaguered U.S. workers by making E-Verify mandatory for employers within one year of enactment and by reducing widespread Social Security fraud. This amendment is identical to S. 202, the Accountability through Electronic Verification Act of 2013, which was introduced by Senator Grassley on January 31, 2013, and co-sponsored by Senators Sessions, Boozman, Corker, Enzi, Fischer, Hatch, Johanns, Lee, Vitter, and Wicker. The Senate Judiciary Committee Majority has taken no action on the bill.
http://www.sessions.senate.gov/publi...f-c5777846a957