Map of States with Mandatory E-Verify Laws – My Letter to the Maryland State House Assembly

Dear State House Assembly, I guess Maryland is missing the boat.  Surely this would affect all Illegal Aliens that have taken our Jobs and the business’s that are breaking the laws by hiring them under the table.  I know the Casa De Maryland Delegation would never let this fly, but we will continue to pressure you to pass this bill.  Casa De Maryland and their Gang of Marauders should not be allowed to testify on any bill unless they are here legally.  Again, we are holding all those Senators and Delegates that voted to give Casa De Maryland over 1 million dollars of tax payer dollars accountable during the next election, including my Senator from Washington County, Don Munson the only Republican Senator to do so.  Maryland tax payers are also paying 1.4 billion dollars a year for these Illegal Aliens according to the FAIR Study and Maryland Dept of Planning.

Map of States with Mandatory E-Verify Laws

http://www.numbersusa.com/content/news/february-1-2009/map-states-with-mandatory-e-verify-laws.html

Updated Wednesday, April 8, 2009, 8:26 AM EST – posted on NumbersUSA

E-Verify is an Internet-based system operated by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) in partnership with the Social Security Administration (SSA). E-Verify is currently free to employers and is available in all 50 states. It provides an automated link to federal databases to help employers determine employment eligibility of new hires and the validity of their Social Security numbers. While its usage remains voluntary throughout the country, some states have passed legislation making its use mandatory for certain businesses.

States Requiring the use of E-Verify (Descriptions of each state below)

Find Businesses Already Using the E-Verify Database
Questions and Answers about E-Verify
FACT SHEET: E-Verify
Map of States with In-State Tuition Laws

Arizona

HB 2779 (Arizona Fair and Legal Employment Act) – Passed in 2007, HB 2779 prohibits employers from knowingly hiring undocumented workers and requires all employers to use E-Verify, effective January 1, 2008. It was followed up in 2008 with HB 2745, which prohibits government contracts to any businesses not using E-Verify, effective May 1, 2008.

Arkansas

HB 1093 – Introduced by State Representative Bill Sample, HB 1093 would require state agencies to use E-Verify and prohibit the state from doing business with contractors unless they were registered to use E-Verify. If enacted, the bill will go into effect on July 1, 2009.

Colorado

HB 1343 – Passed in 2006, HB 1343 prohibits state agencies from entering into contract agreements with contractors who knowingly employ illegal aliens and requires prospective contractors use E-Verify to ensure legal work status of all employees. In 2008, SB 193 was passed requiring contractors with state contracts to use E-Verify. The effective date for SB 193 is August 6, 2008.

Georgia

SB 529 – Passed in 2006, SB 529 requires public employers, contractors and subcontractors with 500 or more employees to participate in E-Verify for all new employees, effective July 1, 2007. Public employers, contractors and subcontractors with more than 100 employees (but less than 500) must use E-Verify on or before July 1, 2008 and public employers, contractors and subcontractors with fewer than 100 employees must use E-Verify on or before July 1, 2009.

Idaho

Executive Order – In December 2006, Governor Jim Risch issued an executive order, with immediate effect, requiring that state agencies participate in the E-Verify system.

Indiana

SB 580 – Introduced by Senator Mike Delph, SB 580 would require all businesses to use E-Verify and would impose the nation’s strictest penalties for employers found guilty of hiring undocumented workers. The effective date for this bill is September 30, 2009.
UPDATED (2/24/09) – SB 580 passed the Indiana Senate by a vote of 37-13 and will move to the State House for further action.

Kansas

SB 580 – Introduced by Senator Peggy Palmer, SB 580 would require businesses to use E-Verify. The bill lost a vote last year, 27-12, but is expected to be re-introduced in 2009.

Minnesota

Executive Order – In January 2008, Governor Tim Pawlenty issued an executive order effective, January 29, 2008, stating that all hiring authorities within the executive branch of state government as well as any employer seeking to enter into a state contract worth in excess of $50,000 must participate in the E-Verify program.

Mississippi

SB 2988 – Passed in 2008, SB 2988 requires public and private employers to participate in E-Verify with a phase in period beginning in 2008 and full participation by 2011. All government agencies and businesses with more than 250 employees were required to comply by July 1, 2008. Companies with 100-250 employees must comply by July 1, 2009, companies with 30-100 employees by July 1, 2010 and the remaining companies by July 1, 2011.

Missouri

HB 1549 – Passed in 2008, HB 1549 requires all public employers to use E-Verify. If a court finds that a business knowingly employed someone not authorized to work, the company’s business permit and licenses shall be suspended for 14 days. Upon the first violation, the state may terminate contracts and bar the company from doing business with the state for 3 years. Upon the second violation, the state may permanently debar the company from doing business with the state.

Nebraska

LB 403 – Passed in April 2009, LB403 requires the mandatory use of E-Verify for all state employers and contractors. It also requires the use of E-Verify for any private employers who request state tax incentives.

North Carolina

SB 1523 – Passed in 2006, SB 1523 requires all state agencies, offices, and universities to use E-Verify. The law applied to all employees hired after January 1, 2007 except for local education agencies which was March 1, 2007.

Oklahoma

HB 1804 (Oklahoma Taxpayer and Citizen Protection Act) – Passed in 2007 and made effective on November 1, 2007, HB 1804 requires public employers, contractors and subcontractors to participate in E-Verify and requires income tax withholding for independent contractors who do not have valid Social Security numbers.

Rhode Island

Executive Order – In March 2008, Governor Carcieri issued an executive order requiring executive agencies to use E-Verify; and for all persons and businesses, including grantees, contractors and their subcontractors and vendors to use E-Verify. Proposed House legislation is pending.

South Carolina

HB 4400 – Passed in 2008, HB 4400 requires the mandatory use of E-Verify for all employers by July 1, 2010. All public employers, private employers with more than 100 employees and public contractors with more than 500 employees were required to comply by January 1, 2009. All private employers must comply by July 1, 2009 and all other all businesses by January 1, 2010.

Utah

SB 81 – Passed in 2008 and made effective on July 1, 2009, SB 81 requires public employers, public contractors and subcontractors to E-Verify and makes it illegal to discharge a lawful employee while retaining an unauthorized alien in the same job category.

MD Flunks Race to Top

There is an unusual twist to the competition for federal education dollars
under President Obama’s “Race to the Top” funding program. While Democrats
in Annapolis like to crow about Maryland’s #1 ranking by Education Week
magazine, a different evaluation emerges when the state education system is
judged by the standards established under the Obama Administration.

How ironic that Maryland’s one-party monopoly failed miserably in the first
round of the federal competition administered by a Democrat presidential
administration.

The problem is – in Maryland, education policy is not about the children.
Instead, it is all about the teacher’s union and their stranglehold over
Democrat legislators in the General Assembly.

The Obama administration is modeling the future of 21st century education on
programs that work in Chicago and other innovative systems across the
nation. Public school systems that promote charter schools and reward
successful teachers with “pay for performance” are making great strides in
American’s urban centers. These systems also defer tenure for teachers so
that the motivation exists for continued teacher improvement early in one’s
career.

Unfortunately, legislators in Annapolis at the direction of union leaders
have reject these reforms in Maryland. When Governor Robert L. Ehrlich, Jr.,
proposed model legislation for charter schools during his administration,
the bill was stripped down to a bare framework that required union control
of teachers in any charter school in Maryland.

How ironic that Maryland’s application today for highly-sought dollars from
the Obama Adminstration would have been enhanced by passage of the charter
schools bill championed by Governor Ehrlich!

Taxpayers pay $101,000 for Pelosi’s in-flight ‘food, booze’ – Speaker’s trips ‘are more about partying than anything else’

From Ellen Sauerbrey:

THIS IS AN ABSOLUTE OUTRAGE THAT WILL MAKE YOU BLOOD BOIL.  Read it and pass it on.  People hate arrogance and hypocrisy.  Her abuse of the plane is bad enough but this story could be her undoing!

Ellen

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OBAMA WATCH CENTRAL

Taxpayers pay $101,000 for Pelosi’s in-flight ‘food, booze’

Speaker’s trips ‘are more about partying than anything else’

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Posted: January 29, 2010
12:20 am Eastern

By Bob Unruh
© 2010 WorldNetDaily

It reads like a dream order for some wild frat party: Maker’s Mark whiskey, Courvoisier cognac, Johnny Walker Red scotch, Grey Goose vodka, E&J brandy, Bailey’s Irish Crème, Bacardi Light rum, Jim Beam whiskey, Beefeater gin, Dewars scotch, Bombay Sapphire gin, Jack Daniels whiskey … and Corona beer.

Part of the tab for alcoholic drinks on a congressional trip arranged by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi

But that single receipt makes up just part of the more than $101,000 taxpayers paid for “in-flight services” – including food and liquor, for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s trips on Air Force jets over the last two years. That’s almost $1,000 per week.

Documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by Judicial Watch,which investigates and prosecutes government corruption, show that the Pelosi incurred expenses of some $2.1 million for her use of Air Force jets fortravel over that time.

“Speaker Pelosi has a history of wasting taxpayer funds with her boorish demands for military travel,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said today. “And these documents suggest the Speaker’s congressional delegations are more about partying than anything else.”

Pelosi, D-Calif., who joined President Obama on a list of Top 10 corrupt politicians, was added to that list for her “sense of entitlement,” Judicial Watch said when the “honors” were announced not long ago.

“Politicians believe laws and rules (even the U.S. Constitution) apply to the rest of us but not to them. Case in point: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her excessive and boorish demands for military travel. Judicial Watch obtained documents from the Pentagon in 2008 that suggest Pelosi has been treating the Air Force like her own personal airline,” the evaluation said.

And WND reported almost a year ago that Pelosi was shown to have been erratically canceling and rescheduling flights, like one would with an on-call taxi service.

“We have … folks prepping the jets and crews driving in (not a short drive for some), cookingmeals and preflighting the jets etc,” said one Department of Defense e-mail then.

Another official sent an e-mail questioning a series of Pelosi’s requests for aircraft.

“Any chance of politely querying [Pelosi's team] if they really intend to do all of these or are they just picking every weekend?” it stated. “[T]here’s no need to block every weekend ‘just in case’…”

The e-mail noted that the speaker’s office had “a history of canceling many of their past requests.”

Yet another e-mail exchange at that time revealed Pelosi’s demand that jets pick her up at Travis Air Force Base rather than San Francisco’s airport.

“She lives about 1.5 hours from SFO and much closer to Travis. … Whether it is the best use ofassets is not the question. But instead is it worth upsetting the speaker…”

Said another, “This is a battle that we are bound to lose if we tell the speaker(‘s) office. In the end, this is what will happen. I wish that I could say this is a one-time request, but we know it will probably happen again in the future.”

Yet another indicated a deep level of frustration:

“Here is the laydown: there are five G5s. Two are broke. Two off on CODELS. One slated for priority White House… we should keep on G-III for now for Tuesday afternoon and start sacrificing goats and chickens.”

Judicial Watch said the newly obtained 2,000 pages of documentation show Pelosi’s military travel cost the U.S. Air Force $2,100,744.59 over two years – including $101,429.14 which was for in-flight expenses, including food and alcohol.

Among the newest highlights revealed:

Pelosi used Air Force aircraft to travel back to her district at an average cost of $28,210.51 per flight. Of 103 Pelosi-led congressional delegations (CODEL), 31 trips included members of the House speaker’s family.

One CODEL traveling from Washington, D.C., through Tel Aviv, Israel, to Baghdad, Iraq, May 15-20, 2008, “to discuss matters of mutual concern with government leaders” included members of Congress and their spouses and cost $17,931 per hour in aircraft alone. This flight included the purchase of the long list of alcoholic drinks.

According to a “Memo for Record” from a March 29-April 7, 2007, CODEL that involved a stop in Israel, “CODEL could only bring kosher items into the hotel. Kosher alcohol for mixing beverages in the delegation room was purchased on the local economy i.e. bourbon, whiskey, scotch, vodka, gin, triple sec, tequila, etc.

Pelosi’s office could not be contacted for comment. The answering machine said the office would be closed until Monday, and the mailbox was full so no messages could be left.

Judicial Watch, Inc. is a constitutionally conservative, nonpartisan educational foundation that promotes transparency, accountability and integrity in government, politics and the law.

Excuses, Excuses: Barack Obama’s Year of Failure

If you watched President Obama’s State of the Union speech last night, you saw a painfully transparent attempt to spin a tale far different from the reality Americans have witnessed over the last twelve months.

As Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid have dragged our country in the wrong direction by pushing their elitist government-knows-best policies, Americans have realized that the ”change we can believe in” has become change they didn’t want.

We have seen a year of ethically challenged appointees, haphazard attempts at keeping America safe from terror, failed “stimulus” plans, budget busting deficits, back room deals with special interests, and Obama’s blatant attempt to continue binge spending with unprecedented debt.

Americans across the country are telling President Obama and Congressional Democrats to hit the brakes on their binge spending and government-run liberal experiments and focus on the economy and our security — but they arrogantly refuse to listen.

It is clear that President Obama has failed to bring any kind of responsibility to Washington.

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