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Tom Harkin: I just want to explain why I object to this bill. This is the bill that would have increased the number of H-1B visas…

On the recordOctober 9, 1998
I just want to explain why I object to this bill. This is the bill that would have increased the number of H-1B visas from 65,000 per year to 115,000 for next year and the year after, then drop down to 107,500 in 2001 and back down to 65,000 thereafter. Now, ostensibly, the reason for doing this, and why this came up in the last couple of years, is that there was projected to be a big shortage in computer programmers. Thus, there was this big push to increase the number of H-1B visas, to get these computer programmers. It turns out that has, indeed, not happened.
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Tom Harkin
Democratic · Iowa

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Objecting to a bill that would increase H-1B visas during Senate floor debate.

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