Policy and Legislation : Congressional Hearings
Congressional Hearings for 108th Congress
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November 4, 2003
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House Judiciary Committee
IMMIGRANT WORKERS
Immigration, Border security and Claims Subcommittee oversight hearing on "The Prospects for American Workers: Immigration's Impact."
Location: 2141 Rayburn House Office Building
Date: 10:00 a.m. (October 30, 2003)
Senate Judiciary Committee
JUDICIARY BILLS AND NOMINATIONS
Senate Judiciary Committee (Chairman Hatch, R-Utah) will mark up pending legislation and vote on pending nominations.
Location: 226 Dirksen Office Building.,
Date: 9:30 a.m. (October 23, 2003)
Agenda:
- S1545 - Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act of 2003
Senate Judiciary Committee
JUDICIARY BILLS AND NOMINATIONS
Senate Judiciary Committee (Chairman Hatch, R-Utah) marked up pending legislation and voted on pending nominations.
Location: 226 Dirksen Office Building.,
Date: 9:30 a.m. (October 16, 2003)
Agenda:
- S1545 - Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act of 2003
Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security and Claims
VISA OVERSTAYS
Immigration, Border Security and Claims Subcommittee (Chairman Hostettler, R-Ind.) of House Judiciary Committee held a hearing titled "Visa Overstays: A Growing Problem for Law Enforcement."
Location: 2237 Rayburn House Office Building.,
Date: 1:00 p.m. (October 16, 2003)
House Select Homeland Security Committee-Subcommittee on Infrastructure and Border Security
IMPROVED BORDER SECURITY THROUGH INTEGRATED OPERATIONS
Infrastructure and Border Security Subcommittee (Chairman Camp, R-Mich.) of House Select Homeland Security Committee held a hearing titled "One Face at the Border," focusing on an initiative that streamline the border inspection process by integrating the inspection functions of immigration, customs and Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service agents.
Location: 2175 Rayburn House Office Building.,
Date: 1:00 p.m. (October 16, 2003)
Senate Judiciary Committee
Temporary Work Visa
Full committee hearing on "Examining the Importance of the H-1 Visa to the American Economy."
Location: 226 Dirksen Senate Office Building.,
Date: 2:30 p.m. (September 16, 2003)
House Judiciary Committee
Employment Eligibility Verication Pilot Program
Immigration, Border Security and Claims Subcommittee (Chairman Hostettler, R-Ind.) of House Judiciary Committee will mark up legislation that would extend the employment eligibility verification pilot program. The program is a free service available to any employer who wishes to participate, offered by the Immigration and Naturalization Service and the Social Security Administration that confirms employment eligibility of immigrants via an electronic search of Social Security numbers and alien registration numbers. The program was created by section 401(b) of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 and was originally set to expire in November 2001. It was extended for two years and now is scheduled to expire in January 2004.
Location: 2237 Rayburn House Office Building
Date: 2:30 p.m. (September 17, 2003)
Senate Judiciary Committee
Local Immigration Enforcement
Immigration and Border Security Subcommittee hearing on "State and Local Authority to Enforce Immigration Law: Evaluating a Unified Approach for Stopping Terrorists."
Location: 226 Dirksen Senate Office Building.,
Date: 2:30 p.m. (September 18, 2003)
Senate Judiciary Committee
Visa Issuance/Homeland Security
Immigration, Border Security and Citizenship Subcommittee hearing on "Information Sharing and Coordination for Visa Issuance: Our First Line of Defense for Homeland Security."
Location: 226 Dirksen Senate Office Building.,
Date: 2:30 p.m. (September 23, 2003)
Senate Judiciary Committee
Visa Security
Immigration, Border Security and Citizenship Subcommittee hearing on Visa Issuance: Our First Line of Defense for Homeland Security."
Location: 226 Dirksen Senate Office Building.,
Date: 2:00 p.m. (September 30, 2003)
House Judiciary Committee
Immigration Law Enforcement
Immigration, Border Security and Claims Subcommittee hearing on H.R.2671, the Clear Law Enforcement for Criminal Alien Removal Act of 2003 (CLEAR Act).
Location: 2237 Rayburn House Office Building.,
Date: 4:00 p.m. (October 1, 2003)
Senate Judiciary Committee
Judiciary Bills and Nominations
Senate Judiciary Committee (Chairman Hatch, R-Utah) will mark up pending legislation and vote on pending nominations.
Location: 226 Dirksen Office Building.,
Date: 9:30 a.m. (October 2, 2003)
Agenda:
- S 1580 - Religious Workers Act of 2003
- S1545 - Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act of 2003
Senate Finance Committee
Identity Theft
Full committee oversight hearing "The Alias Among Us: The Homeland Security and Terrorism Threat for Document Fraud, Identity Theft and Social Security Number Misuse.",
Location: G-50 Dirksen Senate Office Building.,
Date: 10 a.m. (September 9, 2003)
House Judiciary Committee
Full Committee Markup
House Judiciary Committee (Chairman Sensenbrenner, R-Wis.) mark up of pending legislation.
Agenda: HR2152 - A bill to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to extend for an additional 5 years the special immigrant religious worker program.
Location: 2141 Rayburn House Office Building
Date: 10 a.m. (September 10, 2003)
House Judiciary Committee
Mexico Social Security Agreement
Immigration, Border Security and Claims Subcommittee oversight hearing on "Should There Be A Social Security Totalization Agreement with Mexico?"
A social security totalization agreement is an executive agreement entered into by the United States with various foreign countries. The purpose of a social security totalization agreement is to: relieve the employer and employee from double social security tax with respect to the same employment and to "totalize" the employee's Social Security tax paid to both countries in order to receive the combined benefits in only one country. A totalization agreement does not permit an employee to avoid Social Security tax in both countries; rather, it merely allows the employee to pay tax to either one country or the other.
Location: 2141 Rayburn House Office Building
Date: 11 a.m. (September 11, 2003)
House Judiciary Committee
Employment Eligibility Verication Pilot Program
Immigration, Border Security and Claims Subcommittee (Chairman Hostettler, R-Ind.) of House Judiciary Committee will mark up legislation that would extend an employment eligibility verification pilot program by government agencies.
Location: 2237 Rayburn House Office Building
Date: 11 a.m. (September 11, 2003)
Agenda: HR2359 - Basic Pilot Extension Act of 2003
SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE
"L-1 VISA PROGRAM"Immigration, Border Security and Citizenship Subcommittee (Chairman Chambliss, R-Ga.) of Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing titled " L-1 Visa and American Interests in the 21st Century Global Economy." The L-1 visa is a non-immigrant visa that allows companies operating both in the United States and abroad to transfer certain classes of employee from foreign operations to U.S. operations for up to seven years. The employee must have worked for a unit of the company outside of the United States for at least one year out of the previous three years.
Date: July 29, 2003
Time: 2:30 p.m.
Location: 226 Dirksen Senate Office Building
HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE
**POSTPONED UNTIL AFTER AUGUST RECESS**
"SOCIAL SECURITY TOTALIZATION AGREEMENT WITH MEXICO"Immigration, Border Security and Claims Subcommittee (Chairman Hostettler, R-Ind.) of House Judiciary Committee will hold an oversight hearing titled "Should There be a Social Security Totalization Agreement with Mexico?" A social security totalization agreement is an executive agreement entered into by the United States with various foreign countries. The purpose of a social security totalization agreement is to: relieve the employer and employee from double social security tax with respect to the same employment and to "totalize" the employee's Social Security tax paid to both countries in order to receive the combined benefits in only one country. A totalization agreement does not permit an employee to avoid Social Security tax in both countries; rather, it merely allows the employee to pay tax to either one country or the other.
Date: July 25, 2003
Time: 9:00 a.m.
Location: 2237 Rayburn House Office Building
SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE
"ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION SMUGGLING"Crime, Corrections and Victims' Rights Subcommittee (Chairman Graham, R-S.C.) of Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing titled "Alien Smuggling/Human Trafficking: Sending a Meaningful Message of Deterrence."
Date: July 25, 2003
Time: 10:00 a.m.
Location: 226 Dirksen Senate Office Building
HOUSE SELECT HOMELAND SECURITY COMMITTEE
"BORDER SECURITY"Infrastructure and Border Security Subcommittee (Chairman Camp, R-Mich.) of House Select Homeland Security Committee will hold a hearing titled "Best Business Practices in Securing America's Border."
Date: July 23, 2003
Time: 10:00 a.m.
Location: 2318 Rayburn House Office Building
SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE
"LAW ENFORCEMENT AND TERRORISM"Senate Judiciary Committee (Chairman Hatch, R-Utah) will hold an oversight hearing on law enforcement and terrorism.
Date: July 23, 2003
Time: 10:00 a.m.
Location: 226 Dirksen Senate Office Building
SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE
"VISA ISSUANCE"Immigration, Border Security and Citizenship Subcommittee hearing on visa issuance, information sharing and enforcement in the post 9-11 environment.
Date: July 15, 2003
Time: 2:30 p.m.
Location: 226 Dirksen Senate Office Building
SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE
"FREE TRADE ENTRY PROVISIONS"Full committee hearing on "Temporary Entry Provisions of the Proposed Free Trade Agreements with Chile and Singapore."
Date: July 14, 2003
Time: 2:00 p.m.
Location: 226 Dirksen Senate Office Building
HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE
"IMMIGRATION RELIEF"Immigration, Border Security and Claims Subcommittee oversight hearing on "Immigration Relief Under the Convention Against Torture of Serious Criminals and Human Rights Violators."
Date: July 11, 2003
Time: 9:00 a.m.
Location: 2237 Rayburn House Office Building
HOUSE GOVERNMENT REFORM COMMITTEE
"VISA/PASSPORT REQUIREMENTS"Full committee hearing to examine the impact of new visa and passport requirements on foreign travel to the U.S.
Date: July 10, 2003
Time: 10:00 a.m.
Location: 2154 Rayburn House Office Building
HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE
"ILLEGAL ALIEN SMUGGLING"Immigration, Border Security and Claims Subcommittee oversight hearing on "The Deadly Consequences of Illegal Alien Smuggling."
Date: June 24, 2003
Time: 10:00 a.m.
Location: 2141 Rayburn House Office Building
House Select Homeland Security Committee
"Border Security"Full committee oversight hearing to assess Homeland security Department efforts to secure American borders."
Date: June 25, 2003
Time: 2:00 p.m.
Location: 2318 Rayburn House Office Building
House Judiciary Committee "Identification Cards"Immigration, Border Security and Claims Subcommittee oversight hearing on "The Federal Government's Response to the Issuance and Acceptance in the U.S. of Consular Identification Cards."
Date: June 26, 2003
Time: 11:00 a.m.
Location: 2237 Rayburn House Office Building
House Select Homeland Security Committee "Border Security"Infrastructure and Border Security Subcommittee hearing on "Balancing Border Security and Commerce."
Date: June 16, 2003
Time: 3:00 p.m.
Location: 345 Cannon House Office Building
Witnesses:
- Robert Bonner, commissioner, Bureau of Customs and Border Protection, Homeland Security Department
House Judiciary Committee "Consular Cards"Immigration, Border Security, and Claims Subcommittee hearing on "The Issuance, Acceptance, and Reliability of Consular Identification Cards".
Date: June 19, 2003
Time: 2:00 p.m.
Location: 2141 Rayburn House Office Building IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION BILLS
Subcommittee Hearing
Tuesday, May 6, 10:00a.m., 2141 Rayburn Bldg
Immigration Border Security and Claims Subcommittee (Chairman Hostettler, R-Ind.) of House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on pending legislation.
AGENDA
- HR1685 - A bill to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act relating to posthumous citizenship through death while on active-duty service during periods of military hostilities to eliminate the prohibition on immigration benefits for surviving family members and to provide such benefits for spouses and children
- HR1714 - Armed Forces Citizenship Act of 2003
- HR1799 - Fallen Heroes Immigration Spouse Fairness Act of 2003
- HR1275 - A bill to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to change the requirements for naturalization to citizenship through service in the armed forces of the United States
- HR1814 - Naturalization and Family Protection for Military Members Act of 2003
FISCAL 2004 APPROPRIATIONS: HOMELAND SECURITY
Subcommittee Hearing
Tuesday, May 6, 10:00a.m., 124 Dirksen Bldg
Thursday, May 8, 10:00a.m., 124 Dirksen Bldg
Homeland Security Subcommittee (Chairman Cochran, R-Miss.) of Senate Appropriations Committee held hearings on fiscal 2004 appropriations for programs under its jurisdiction.
Tuesday, May 6, 10:00a.m., 124 Dirksen Bldg
Border and Transportation Security
Thursday, May 8, 10:00a.m., 124 Dirksen Bldg
Bureau of Customs and Border Inspections Transportation Security Administration Federal Law Enforcement Training Center
FISCAL 2004 APPROPRIATIONS: HOMELAND SECURITY
Subcommittee Hearing
Wednesday, May 7, 10:00a.m., 2359 Rayburn Bldg
Thursday, May 8, 2:00p.m., 2359 Rayburn Bldg
Homeland Security Subcommittee (Chairman Rogers, R-Ky.) of House Appropriations Committee held hearings on fiscal 2004 appropriations for programs under its jurisdiction.
Wednesday, May 7, 10:00a.m., 2359 Rayburn Bldg
Bureau of Customs and Border Protection
Thursday, May 8, 2:00p.m., 2359 Rayburn Bldg
Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement
WAR ON TERRORISM AND IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT
Subcommittee Hearing
Thursday, May 8, 2:00p.m., 2237 Rayburn Bldg
Immigration, Border Security and Claims Subcommittee (Chairman Hostettler, R-Ind.) of House Judiciary Committee held a hearing titled "War on Terrorism: Immigration Enforcement Since September 11. 2001."
HIGHER EDUCATION AND IMMIGRANT STUDENTS
News Conference/Briefing
Thursday, April 10, 12:00noon, 2456 Rayburn Bldg
National Immigration Forum and other immigration groups held a news conference to announce the national week of action to urge Congress to support federal legislation that would facilitate access to postsecondary educational opportunities for Hispanics and other immigrant students.
- Participants:
- Rep. Howard L. Berman, D-CA
- Rep. Chris Cannon, R-Utah
- Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard, D-CA
BUREAU OF IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT
Subcommittee Hearing
Thursday, April 10, 9:00a.m., 2237 Rayburn Bldg
Immigration, Border Security and Claims Subcommittee (Chairman Hostettler, R-Ind.) of House Judiciary Committee held a hearing titled "Department of Homeland Security Transition: Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement."
Witnesses Testimony:
- Asa Hutchinson - undersecretary of Homeland Security for Border and transportation security
- Mark Krikorian - executive director, Center for Immigration Studies
- Timothy Danahey - Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association
- Rich Stana - director, Homeland Security and Justice Issues, General Accounting Office
TRANSPORTATION AND BORDER SECURITY
Subcommittee Hearing
Wednesday, April 9, 9:30a.m., 253 Russell Bldg
Consumer Affairs and Product Safety Subcommittee (Chairman Fitzgerald, R-Ill.) of Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee held a hearing on proposals by the Department of Homeland Security to improve security for all forms of transportation, on border security issues and on the impact of security initiatives on commerce.
MONITORING FOREIGN STUDENTS
Oversight Hearing
Wednesday, April 2, 2:00p.m., 2237 Rayburn Bldg
Immigration, Border Security and Claims Subcommittee (Chairman Hostettler, R-Ind.) of House Judiciary Committee held an oversight hearing on Title V of HR 3526 (PL 107-173), which direct the attorney general to develop an electronic means of verifying and monitoring the foreign student and exchange visitor information program, including aspects of: (1) documentation and visa issuance; (2) U.S. admission; (3) institution notification; (4) documentation transmittal; and (5) registration and enrollment. The act requires an institution to notify INS of the failure of a foreign student or exchange visitor to enroll within 30 days of the registration deadline, increases student data collection requirements and specifies information required for foreign student visa applications. The hearing will focus on ways the law could be made to function more smoothly and effectively.
Witnesses Testimony:
BORDER SECURITY
Hearing
Thursday, April 3, 10:00a.m., H-140 U.S. Capitol
Homeland Security Subcommittee hearing on FY2004 appropriations for border protection, customs and immigration enforcement.
BORDER SECURITY TECHNOLOGY
Joint Hearing
Wednesday, March 12, 10:00a.m., 226 Dirksen Bldg.
Technology, Terrorism and Government Information Subcommittee and Immigration Technology: Keeping Terrorists Out of the United States."
REIMBURSEMENTS TO STATES FOR CARE OF ILLEGAL ALIENS
News Conference/Briefing
Tuesday, March 4, 11:15a.m., 347 Russell Bldg.
Members of the Senate held a news conference on legislation that would reimburse border states for costs of emergency care of illegal aliens.
NEW YORK CITY'S SANCTUARY POLICY
Subcommittee Hearing
Thursday, February 27, 9:00a.m., 2237 Rayburn Bldg.
Immigration, Border Security and Claims Subcommittee (Chairman Hostettler, R-Ind.) of House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on the New York City Sanctuary Policy, which prohibits the New York Police Department from contacting the Immigration and Naturalization Service when they arrest aliens. The hearing follows a Dec. 19, 2002, sexual assault involving five aliens and will focus on the effect of such policies on public safety, law enforcement and immigration.
Witnesses Testimony:
BORDER SECURITY
Full Committee Hearing
Thursday, January 30, 10:00a.m., 215 Dirksen Bldg.
Senate Finance Committee (Chairman Grassley, R-Iowa) held a hearing on the security of U.S. borders, focusing on an evaluation of the performance of the agencies responsible for border security (Interior Department, Immigration and Naturalization Service and Customs Service).
Witnesses
Robert Cramer - managing director, Office of Special Investigations, General Accounting Office (GAO); Ronald Malfi - director, Office of Special Investigations, GAO; John W. Cooney - assistant director, Office of Special Investigations, GAO; Johnny Williams - executive associate commissioner for field operations, Immigration and Naturalization Service; Robert Jacksta - executive director, Border Security and Facilitation, Customs Service; Earl Devaney - inspector general, Department of the Interior; Daniel Wirth - National Park Service, representing Federal Law Enforcement officers Association; Donald Murphy - deputy director, National Park Service
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