Thank you very much, Mr. Leonard, for the testimony, the advice, and the suggestions.

Are these 135 site visits then, are they sort of unannounced visits where inspectors show up and say, 'I am with the Wage and Hour Division?'

Is the Department of Labor more likely to investigate particular worksites or particular industries?

I just wonder how they track it, too.

How do you prove that someone even wants the food or housing that is being deducted from their paycheck? Maybe they don't even want it.

Seven hundred fifty. For the entire United States?

I was surprised, Mr. McKeon, to find out that there is a contract agency in Texas...

Well, it is pretty bad, and I am still trying to get to the bottom of just what we need to do with 14(c) and 3(m) and tightening up on those and just making sure that, first of all, under 14(c) there has to be determination of your…

You get me some of that information I asked about, I would sure appreciate it very much.

Well, you can't imagine how embarrassing isn't the right word, embarrassment. Just how badly I feel that this has taken place in my own State.

We need individual assessments of personal abilities in terms of different job sectors and jobs that they could do.

We are going to do something about it. I just don't know exactly what. That is why we have got you here.

Thank you again for always being there, Senator Harkin.

I mean, there would obviously be a bias for the employer to get it down.

Well, like I said, that is what we are going to do. We are going to change this law some way.

I think we also need to strengthen the penalty system so that people do know that if they get caught, they are going to get severely fined.

How do we stop something like this? How do we make it more reasonable?

Well, again, they may be--correct me if I am wrong, they may be nonprofit, but they do make money.