John Hope Bryant: “I want to also respond briefly to a comment made early by the gentlewoman from Idaho. I think she misheard me. I said…”

“I want to also respond briefly to a comment made early by the gentlewoman from Idaho. I think she misheard me. I said that the pilot program now working to test this system that the Chabot amendment would eliminate has not yielded any complaints from employers and not yielded any instances of discrimination against potential employees. The example the gentlewoman gave a moment ago is exactly the example we are trying to avoid. We want employers to be able to rely upon this check to know that they do not have to worry about whether or not they have somehow violated the current laws with regard to all these documents. We want them to be able to do what the provision says and that simply is, check the number and see if it is a valid number, and, second, see if it belongs to the name on the card. That is all this does. It is an effort to protect the employer and to protect the employee, as well, and to make the system simple. Please vote against the Chabot amendment.”