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Howard Berman: this amendment and the law that it seeks to amend have no application to H-2A workers. None of the regulations, none of…

On the recordJune 26, 2000
this amendment and the law that it seeks to amend have no application to H-2A workers. None of the regulations, none of the laws affecting them are covered in this law, and the H-2A workers are excluded from coverage under this law. The gentleman's amendment will not even deal with the lawsuits dealing with H-2A that the gentleman is seeking to address with the amendment.
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Howard Berman
California

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Discussing the applicability of an amendment to H-2A workers during a legislative debate.

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