Political Quotes

“Very simply, I heard my colleague from Kentucky say if we agree on something, let's pass it. We do agree on increasing STEM visas. I am offering a proposal that does that and does it in a more fulsome way than the proposal of my friend from Texas. But what we do not do is take away other visas or add in other extraneous positions. I would say the logic of my friend from Kentucky is impeccable, but because of constraints on the other side they could not pass a plain bill that just added STEM visas. They had to take away other visas that my colleague from Texas does not like--but many people do. They had to add in a few other provisions. I would simply say that if my colleague from Kentucky says we should join together on something we agree with, I will bet he agrees with our proposal as well. And I will bet he agrees with it even more than the other proposal because we add two things that are not in the bill of the Senator from Texas. No. 1, we allow unused STEM visas to be used to reduce the backlog of employment green cards. There are 200,000 people waiting. It may well be that the 55,000 visas in the bill of the Senator from Texas are not going to be used up. That is what experts say. Second, we allow STEM green cards to be used by entrepreneurs, a bill that has been introduced by I believe Senator Coons, Senator Moran--bipartisan--Senator Warner as well.…”