The House Judiciary Committee has approved, in a party-line vote, the Lamar Smith E-Verify bill mentioned in today’s NRO editorial. The Democrats all voted for a poison-pill amendment to strip out the bill’s language preempting certain state E-Verify measures, but the amendment failed. (It was a poison pill because the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other business groups would have revoked their support of the bill had the amendment passed.) See more detail here.