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Phil Gingrey: You know who else would be pleased, and that is the employers in this country, and a lot of the industries. In Georgia…

On the recordMarch 21, 2007
You know who else would be pleased, and that is the employers in this country, and a lot of the industries. In Georgia, I mean we have got agriculture, we have the poultry industry, we have the carpet industry. We all have the homebuilding industry in every State, and I know that most of my friends that are in those businesses pay good wages, they pay good benefits, they are treating their employees in a compassionate way. In return, they are getting a heck of a day's work for their wages that they pay, and I think they would welcome, I think that the employers would welcome. I know Representative King, in a bill that he introduced in the last Congress and has championed in regard to an identification system that is foolproof, and we can do that, we can have a tamper-proof, biometric identification card. And I think our employers, and I have talked to many of them, and I commend them, but there may be a few that are paying low wages and gaming the system. You always have that problem. But we will ferret them out. At the same time, kudos to those who are playing by the rules and doing the right thing.
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Phil Gingrey
Georgia

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Discussing the impact of a biometric identification system on employers and industries in Georgia.

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