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Dick Durbin: “The underlying bill, the H-1B visa bill, will allow companies in America to bring in skilled workers from overseas. They…”

On the recordSeptember 26, 2000
The underlying bill, the H-1B visa bill, will allow companies in America to bring in skilled workers from overseas. They are telling us they cannot find those workers in America's labor pool. We decided under the H-1B visa, in 1998, to increase the number who could be brought in this fiscal year to 107,500. They are telling us that number is inadequate. They cannot find the workers in America to fill their needs and they do not want to move their companies overseas. So the underlying bill...would increase the number who can be brought in for these skilled labor jobs to 195,000 a year.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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Discussing the H-1B visa bill and the need for skilled workers in the U.S.

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