this is our hotline program and it's, like i said, the hotline program is similar to silent witness program i was telling you about. you remain anonymous. that's big for the kids, too. a lot of places that we use this hotline reward is in the schools because that's where you're going to get a lot of intel. once they see a little bit of this and they see a little bit of money going out, they become more and more -- people are ratting on everybody. we get them to rat on each other. we've even had taggers tell on other taggers. which is kind of funny. the rewards range from $75 to $250. like i said, we have a board that sits on it and he check off different things and how dangerous it was for that person telling the other. it's p just for kids. it's all over the city. we have billboards all over the city that say this is our program, call it, we can get you money, 75, $250. the other thing is i have these little green cards i carry with me. when i'm outlooking at -- doing graffiti. don't tell anything. when i'm looking at graffiti, i feel like a homeless guy sitting out there. they could use e

our graffiti hotline program is almost like a silent witness. many are designed first to school age kids. any time we get grab eat aloe on the school we would take pictures up and put up a reward poster. we got a phoenix community alliance that has business members tire of graffiti that put money into this program. and we use it to reward people for calling others in on graffiti, up to $250. the point system, we go to a board once a month and talk about the different cases that we get and we reward these people up to $250. huge, great program in phoenix right now. lots -- and we don't just do it for conviction. you know what silent witness says? you can receive up to a thousand dollars upon conviction, not with the graffiti reward program. the graffiti hotline program, it's just minimum id of the tager because once we id them, we'll go and get them. sooner or later. the big thing that we do use, though, is graffiti tracker. i was talking to some individuals earlier today about our graffiti tracker program. on the table over there when you leave

imposed new sanctions on the nuclear program the north cut off a red cross hotline this morning, one of the only lines of direct communication to the south. >>> two u.s. troops killed after an afghan officer opened fire in a police station in the eastern part of the country, an area where special dporsz had been given until idea during defense secretary chuck hagel's visit on sunday, afghan president hamid karzai accused the u.s. of making the war last longer. >>> it was two years ago today that a monster tsunami stormed ashore in japan. washing away everything in sight. nearly 19,000 lives were lost that day. people across japan this morning marked a moment of silence. more than 300,000 people are still without homes. today, hundreds of survivors of the nuclear disaster that followed are filing a rare class action lawsuit to get the plant's operator to try to take more responsibility. >>> at home, police say speed was the likely cause of a crash in ohio over the weekend that took the lives of six teenagers there. the suv flipped and went into a swamp. two others managed to escape fr

the election protection hotline, the centerpieces of the program, received more than 200,000 calls inection cycle. additionally, the election protection and lawyers' committee web site and social media received millions of visits in 2012. election protection hosted 38 call centers across the country on election day with more than 5,300 trained legal volunteers and 2,300 grass roots volunteers in 22 states and over 80 voting jurisdictions. i'm going to stop right there. you see her bio, it's, um, extremely long. [applause] and you can read the rest of it on the program if you want to. but this is where i'm going to take it from here, okay? this is why she's getting honored today. be you look to my left -- if you look to my left and if you look to my right, you will see a picture of her on each side. that happened right here last year in march when, at this luncheon, when she unveiled the map of shame. but, and she passed it out to some of you who are also here. she announced at the beginning of 2012 what most of us did not know. but by the end of 2012, and she can correct me on my numb

hotline and line for e-verify users. a employee tool kit is variable online in english and spanish to help employers napped the program. uscis is committed to to the expansion of. e-verify program while assuring accuracy, efficiency and integrity of the system. we have committed to increasing compliance, knowledge and understanding of the program and how it benefits the america workforce. on behalf of all of my colleagues auscis we appreciate congress's continued strong support of the e-verify program. i look forward to testifying before the subcommittee and look forward to answering your questions. >> thank you, ma'am. mr. gam rule last. >> thank you, chairman gowdy, ranking member lofgren and members the border security thanks for the opportunity to testify. i'm chris gam rule last, i'm president of ivory development in salt lake city. wer are more than 140,000 members of the national association of homebuilders. to insure ivory homes only employs individuals to work in the united states we use the e-verify employment verification system. in 2010 the state of utah imposed a requirement all employers with 15 or more e

hotline for e-verify users. in addition, a new multimedia toolkit is available on line in english and spanish to help employees understand the program. u.s. cis is committed to continued expansion of the program while ensuring the accuracy and integrity of the system. we are equally committed to increasing complaints, knowledge, and understanding of the program and how it benefits the work force. on behalf of all my colleagues, we appreciate congress's continued strong support of the program. i thank you for this opportunity to testify. >> thank you. mr. gambrulis? >> thank you for this opportunity to testify. i am the president of ivory development based in salt lake city. ivory holmes is one of the members of the national association of home builders. to ensure every home -- ivory holmes -- homes employes american citizens, we use the e- verify system. ivory holmes worked closely with the utah legislature to craft reason approach to bounce compliance with the law with the needs of employers. once the state enacted a law, ivory holmes came into compliance with e-verify. we train our human resources at to act in accordance with the