Political Quotes

“if you like Federal mandates, here is one. Senator Lankford wants a Federal mandate to require that anyone who receives a grant from this bill has to sign up for E-Verify. Well, what does that mean? It means a school district in my home State that ended up getting a grant under this bill for energy-efficient improvements, renewable energy improvements at public school facilities would now be required by the Lankford amendment, the Federal mandate, to have E-Verify to check out the cafeteria workers in the school district. Is that what we really want to do? Well, how good is E-Verify? Some States have done it voluntarily. Eight of them have done it for all or most employers. You think if you run all these employees through the E-Verify process, how good is it? Well, I can tell you how good it is. Do you know how many illegal aliens you find when you go through E-Verify? One percent. One percent. So he is creating a Federal mandate and regulations on districts that are just trying to get energy improvements and reduce their costs and putting in an E-Verify requirement to get those illegal aliens. Well, it turns out that isn't the situation at all. It is a mandate that is unnecessary. I beg my colleagues to give these school districts and others no more redtape but less redtape. Please oppose the Lankford amendment. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Oklahoma.”