country. you talked about it on the campaign trail. you said, job one was growing the economy. it's why i believe you are standing here and why i'm standing here. you said that it's as a fortune 500 ceo, i'm the only one in congress. i have lived around the world much of my career. nothing we're going to do is more important than this in terms of growing our economy. the reason we need do this is simple. our system does not work. it keeps america from being competitive. it does not meet the needs of our economy. today as tom said, we bring in 1.1 legal immigrants a year. over 50% of our households of legal immigrants participate in our social welfare system. one out of 15 come in with skills that are employable. we have to change that. as business guys, mr. president, you and i understand we need a new approach. we need to fix this immigration system. we took a look at best practices. we looked at canada, australia and others. what we're introducing is