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Article: CHAIRMAN MILLER ISSUES STATEMENT ON 'PROTECTING U.S. AND GUEST WORKERS: THE RECRUITMENT AND EMPLOYMENT OF TEMPORARY FOREIGN LABOR'
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- June 7, 2007
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The House Education & Labor Committee issued the following opening statement from a full committee hearing:
Below are the prepared remarks of U.S. Rep. George Miller (D-CA), chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, for a committee hearing on "Protecting U.S. and Guest Workers: the Recruitment and Employment of Temporary Foreign Labor."
Good morning. Welcome to today's hearing on the recruitment and employment of temporary foreign labor.
Hundreds of thousands of guest workers come to the United States each year under existing programs, and immigration legislation now pending in Congress would further expand these sources of temporary foreign labor.
As the country and the ...