Political Quotes

“this Senator simply wishes to report that the Kennedy amendments place the Department of Labor in the shoes of most of these employers with respect to the criteria with which they will engage in employment. We have sent the amendments that the Senator from Massachusetts proposes to the companies that will be affected by them and asked them, the people who are engaged in these hiring activities, what the impact will be. They report to us exactly what I have told the Senate here today. They report, in fact, that the Kennedy amendments are so disastrous for their recruiting they will be worse off with 95,000 H-1Bs and the Kennedy amendments than they would be to retain present law. I, for one, am willing to accept the views of the employers in the high-tech community on the impact of these amendments as being exactly what they feel would apply to them. They do not want the Department of Labor making more of their employment decisions than they are making today.”