Mr. Chairman. this amendment is directed at the manner in which the Department of Labor is seeking to implement the changes In procedures that this House passed in the Integration Nursing Relief Act of 1989. This legislation was passed to deal with a crisis in terms of the availability of nurses in some of our urban areas in this country. and. in passing this legislation. the Congress took care to streamline the process by which foreign born would be permitted to work on a temporary basis in the United States. The purpose of the legislation was to see to It that the resources of the Department of Labor would be focused on those challenged petitions rather than on the many routine petitions that would be filed. In seeking to implement this legislation. unfortunately the Department of Labor has acted in complete disregard of the expressed intent of the Congress and has implemented regulations more onerous than the existing certification procedure which we seek to streamline.
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