Following his summer-long campaign “Take Our Jobs,” a joint campaign with the United Farm Workers meant to challenge the idea that illegal immigrants are “taking American jobs,” Comedy Central’s satirical host of “The Colbert Report” will testify this Friday on Capitol Hill. Mr. Colbert will appear before the U.S. House of Representatives committee meeting on undocumented agricultural workers. The hearing, Protecting America's Harvest, is about the bipartisan-sponsored AgJOBS bill, currently under consideration in both the House and the Senate. The bill would grant a path to legal status for undocumented farm workers provided they continue to work in agriculture. Not everyone is pleased by Mr. Colbert’s planned attendance, and many consider that Mr. Colbert’s inexpert testimony will make the hearing into a joke. As Utah Republican Representative Jason Chaffetz told ABC News, "It'll be entertaining. He's the best fake newscaster in the country, and it's fitting for this fake hearing to have Colbert."
Read more on the hearing and Colbert’s “Take Our Jobs” campaign at:
http://www.denverpost.com/entertainment/ci_16156329http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/stephen-colbert-testify-congress-republicans-laughing/story?id=11708891www.takeourjobs.org
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