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On the recordJanuary 31, 2012
I certainly share your frustration with the highly skilled international students who have gone through our graduate schools and then--I call it the brain drain, reverse brain drain, and they are having to go home and do the creativity and the innovation that we need in those foreign countries, rather than remain here.
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Judy Biggert
Republican · Illinois

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Biggert expresses concern over skilled international students leaving the U.S. for opportunities abroad.

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