Byron Dorgan: “We need to do this H-1B bill, and we need to increase the number of these visas. Let me also respond to the point the…”

“We need to do this H-1B bill, and we need to increase the number of these visas. Let me also respond to the point the Senator from Mississippi made a moment ago. The Senator from Mississippi pointed out that if we bring additional people in to fill jobs here, which makes sense--I much prefer they come in and fill jobs in this country rather than have the company move their operations to India or some other country--it makes sense also not to move all of those jobs into the same part of the country. Because information technology now allows us to do this work anyplace in the country, what about targeting some areas of the country where we have had outmigration, where we have lost population? That is what the Senator from Mississippi said. I think it makes eminent good sense. I hope we can work on at least a piece of that. I will not object. Again I say it is our intention to get this legislation passed.”