Reid and Pelosi stripped the E-Verify provisions out of the compromise “stimulus” bill. As California Republican Ken Calvert put it:

The one candle in the darkness of this disastrous bill was the reauthorization and requirements to use E-Verify. Now all we are left is a bill that places illegal immigrant interests above those of hard working American families and leaves the bill at the foot of future generations.

Sure, that’s politician blather, but it turns out to be true in this case. This adds to the 800 billion other reasons for no Republicans to vote for the bill–every single time another illegal alien is discovered on a taxpayer-funded construction crew (or on Pelosi’s ridiculous mouse project), the GOP gets to attack the Dem leadership and the White House for stripping out the measure that could have prevented that from happening.