Heath Shuler

I believe firmly that E-Verify must play an important role in helping to fix our immigration system.

In 2008, the Congressional Budget Office and the Joint Committee on Taxation concluded that mandatory E-Verify in Rep. Heath Shuler's SAVE Act would decrease federal revenues by $17.3 billion over a 10-year period.

Expanding E-Verify without more would also cost the government significant tax revenues.

The end result would be lost tax revenues and depressed wages and working conditions for all workers, including U.S. workers.

Expanding E-Verify--even as part of a broader immigration reform effort--without ensuring that proper safeguards are in place, is just one more way in which E-Verify would not benefit American workers.

Unfortunately, and I will say this on both sides, the maturity level is not there from the United States Congress yet.

For thousands of small farms across the country, fresh fruits, nuts and vegetables are the primary source of income.

Since the first establishment in 1973, the Farm Bill has bolstered countless family farms and sparked a boom in production in critical staples ranging from corn to cotton.

I think we have finally gotten to partisan politics on the Committee, and I think that is very unfortunate.

We need every job we can get, particularly in core industries.

In recent weeks our economy has shown promising signs of recovery, but we are not out of the woods yet.

Entrepreneurs generate between 60 and 80 percent of all new positions, and are the most effective driver of economic growth.

At a time when big businesses are slashing their workforce, we need to invest in businesses that are creating jobs, not cutting them.

With unemployment at its highest point in 25 years, we could use that kind of job creation now.

There is a reason so much of our recovery effort has focused on small business. It is simple reality--jobs.

I believe Congress should lift that restriction and let all those groups complete the process, even on an expedited basis.

The fair way to address this situation is to allow the Lumbee to complete the administrative process.

I mean, where does the Trail of Tears begin? I mean, it begins there, not on the eastern part of North Carolina.

Members of Congress should not arbitrarily rule on the identity of a people without establishing the facts.

I cannot support such legislation.

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