Xavier Becerra

I would hope that this is one immigration-related issue where both sides could find common ground.

I don't believe there is a person in this Congress and, I suspect, sitting here in this audience who wouldn't agree that as a sovereign Nation, we have to do everything we can to make sure that we understand who is in our country and who…

As we work forward and make progress in trying to improve this program, the ultimate solution to what we are trying to address through E-Verify is to reform our broken immigration system.

Many would like to expand the E-Verify system, but we should not do so unless we first address the kinds of problems with the existing system that is identified in today's hearing.

I introduced H.R. 5515, the New Employee Verification Act, or NEVA.

As my Texas colleague and chairman of the Judiciary Committee, Lamar Smith, has said, perhaps the most valid criticism of E-Verify is the identity theft loophole.

It sounds like we are piling on top of a broken system.

I agree with every word you said about the subject that is up today, identity theft.

This subcommittee is deeply concerned about this particular problem.

I have heard that some of these information resellers have some of the worst practices around.

Well, I hope, with your good assistance, the three of you, that this perhaps will be the last time we have to hold a hearing on identity theft, because perhaps this time Congress could get together, working with our chairman, to finally…

Let me urge this subcommittee to show the same diligence and thoroughness in examining some other critical issues.

While we may have different views on the importance of Social Security benefits for today's seniors and future retirees, we are united in our concern about identity theft.

It appears to be a document that was prepared without the committee staff's full participation.

We are a week away from a government shutdown where this House has been unable to reconcile its differences with the President.

the budget bill that was passed by this House, H.R. 1, by the Republican majority a few weeks back, would cut $600 million out of your budget, which you said would cost us in revenues, because of lower tax collections--proper and…

there was no direction in the budget bill that cuts the $600 million as to how you could do it in a way that would not undermine services.

I also want to make sure I emphasize again something else you said, because there is a need to dispel this rumor, this myth floating out there, that the money that IRS needs to try to implement this new patient's bill of rights is somehow…

If you are going to get to forgo having to pay those taxes that an otherwise established enterprise has to pay, we should make sure that the public is getting some benefit for it.

Because as we have served on this subcommittee in the past, that has been one issue I have raised quite often, with regard to the non-profit, charitable world, is are they, in fact, providing a service, a public good, that pays for the…

I hope everyone will agree that we should have those who really partied during the first decade of the 21st century and made the deficits that we have today pay for their sins.

One quick way, simply by removing the tax cuts, the Bush tax cuts for the top 1 percent of American earners, the wealthiest 1 percent.

the more we do private sector investment, the more we see productivity increases for our workers, the better things will be.

So to now hear that some people believe we have to cut benefits for Social Security for our seniors who are receiving Social Security in order to balance the budget, we have to wonder what is going on?

What we do with the budget tells Americans what we think about America and how we believe we should move forward as a country together.