Quick vote coming on Goodlatte’s H-2a bill
Story Date: 10/4/2017

 

Source: POLITICO, 10/3/17

It’s committee crunch time from the get-go for a House bill to revamp and expand the agricultural guest-worker program. House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) introduced a new version of his Agricultural Guestworker Act on Monday and scheduled a committee vote for Wednesday — true to his word to push it on a “tight timetable.” Goodlatte, who attended an immigration-focused dinner with Trump and other Hill leaders on Monday night, gave committee members little more than a day to read the 49-page bill and decide whether to vote for it.

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