Political Quotes

“I support S. 1723, the American Competitiveness Act. Business, professional associations, and various governmental entities have presented convincing evidence of the need to raise the current 65,000 annual cap on H1-B workers. It is also true that there is significant conflicting evidence, which is why I believe the requirement in the bill for a non-biased report on high-technology labor needs is one of the most important provisions of the bill. Over the past two years I have heard from numerous employers from around the state of Arizona, including such major employers as Intel Corporation, Motorola, the TRW, who have provided evidence and anecdotes about why more H1-B workers are needed. For example, TRW tells about a foreign student it hired from an American university because the foreign student was the only individual who could produce a formula to redesign a component of the 'air-bag' to make it safer and better designed. If TRW had not been allowed to hire the foreign student, it believes it would still be searching for an engineer to perform the job. This year and last, the 65,000 annual ceiling on H1-B workers has been reached.”