This week both Speaker Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Reid said that they would like to see comprehensive immigration reform taken up in 2010. The two main Senators working on the development of such a bill, Senator Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Senator Graham (R-S.C.), continue to meet with each other as well as those groups affected by such legislation.  

AGC remains in the discussions and continues to promote workable reform, which would include reasonable employer enforcement as well as a new visa program that would create a system to supply the U.S. economy with the workers it needs as the country begins to recover from the downturn and grow in the years ahead.