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Law-Makers Get Earful from Experts During E-Verify Hearings
Today's hearing in the House Committee on Ways and Means on mandatory electronic employment verification threw some cold water on Members of Congress who have been pressing, zombie-like, for mandatory verification of employment authorization.
The most compelling testimony came from Barbara Kennelly, President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, a Social Security advocacy group. Ms. Kennelly, a former member of Congress, talked about the impact of verification schemes now being considered by Congress on the Social Security Administration (SSA):
The problem, she noted in her testimony, is that Congress does not have a good track record for pairing new mandates with new resources.These proposals would divert SSA from its central mission of serving its own beneficiaries and would ask it instead to create a national employment verification system, using SSA databases and employees, to confirm the employment status of every American worker.
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