I’d obviously prefer this “stimulus” monstrosity fail in the Senate, but if it’s going to pass, it should at least contain the provision in the House version of the bill to require contractors getting funds to use the E-Verify system to screen out illegal workers. The potential size of the problem is suggested by an estimate my research director has posted: If the bill were to perform as expected, it would give as many as 300,000 jobs to illegal-alien construction workers. Sen. Sessions is apparently trying to get a vote on the E-Verify issue, and if that happens, I don’t see how it could lose–the campaign attack ads practically write themselves. Robert Rector of the Heritage Foundation has more on the topic here.