third, most importantly, we need a strong pre-emption clause. there are various kinds of balances that need to be struck. we are well aware of pre- emption. we need one law across the country. fourth, and i want to emphasize this -- we cannot support a law that requires reid verification of an entire work force. i do not want to state the obvious, but you have 100,000 employees at a company, it is extremely burdensome to all the sudden run everybody through a new three verification process, particularly when you have already done that. it is quite clear that given the turn in our work force, most workers will be run through e- verify in any case. we're past the days when an employee state with one company forever. with regard to save harbors, i want to make clear that if an employer is tour -- is to comply, he should have a safe harbor from litigation. on a more technical basis, but very important to our members, trying to change the statute does that the process, which is now a written document, can be changed so that the employer can populate