Released on = June 7, 2007, 1:34 pm

Press Release Author = Lala C. Ballatan

Industry = Law

Press Release Summary = The Subcommittee on Social Security under the Committee on
Ways and Means conducted its hearing of the present and proposed systems for
verification of employment eligibility. The schedule was announced earlier by
Congressman Michael R. McNulty who is the present chairman of the Subcommittee. The
hearing took place on Thursday, June 7, 2007. The location of the hearing was in the
B-318 room of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearings started at 10:00 in
the morning.

Press Release Body = The Subcommittee on Social Security under the Committee on Ways
and Means conducted its hearing of the present and proposed systems for verification
of employment eligibility. The schedule was announced earlier by Congressman Michael
R. McNulty who is the present chairman of the Subcommittee. The hearing took place
on Thursday, June 7, 2007. The location of the hearing was in the B-318 room of the
Rayburn House Office Building. The hearings started at 10:00 in the morning.

Los Angeles, California, June 7, 2007- Due to the limited time available to have a
hearing of witnesses, the Subcommittee conducted an oral testimony for the hearing
among exclusively invited witnesses. However, the subcommittee still welcomed and
encouraged organizations or individuals they have not invited to submit written
statements. Some were considered by the Subcommittee to be included in the hearing's
printed record.

McNulty was recorded as declaring this statement during the earlier announcement of
the hearing: "If employment eligibility verification is to be a key enforcement tool
for immigration policy, we must ensure the system is effective, efficient and
feasible. We need better understanding of the possible consequences and impact on
the Social Security Administration if they are to undertake this expanded
responsibility without compromising their core mission of administering Social
Security."


It also discussed updated systems interaction with the REAL ID and other
identification systems, and the consequences of imposing a privacy policy.
Regarding the latter, the proposals for data sharing arrangement between the
agencies were discussed particularly.

The following were the invited witnesses in the hearing:

. Frederick G. Streckewald - the Social Security Administration's Assistant Deputy
Commissioner for Program Policy Office of Disability and Income Security Programs

. Steve Schaeffer - the Social Security Administration Office of the Inspector
General's Assistant Inspector General for the Office of Audit

. Richard Stana - the Government Accountability Office's Director of Homeland
Security and Justice

. Tyler Moran of the National Immigration Law Center based in Idaho. He is the
Employment Policy Director.

. Angelo I. Amador - U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Director of Immigration Policy

. Sue Meisinger representative from organization The Human Resource Initiative for a
Legal Workforce, Society for Human Resource Management based in Alexandria, Virginia

. Marc Rotenberg - Electronic Privacy Information Center's Executive Director

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