Mr. Speaker. I rise tonight. I understand the hour is late. but I think this is a very important issue. We have a program which many Members of Congress are not familiar with. It is called the HlB visa program. This program allows industries from this Nation to bring over mostly hightech workers from other countries. 65.000 workers a year right now. for temporary jobs. They can stay here for 6 years. This was a program that. was established back in 1990 because we were being told that we had an anticipated shortage of scientists and of engineers. By the time this program was in place. the Berlin Wall had fallen and we did not have as much of a need in the defense industry for this nical expertise. kind of techBut what ended up happening was many countries found out that they could go overseas. they could bring over computer programmers or reprogrammers rather than train American workers. and we have seen throughout this country a propensity of what I would refer to as job shops. that is companies that are providing computer programmers to our industries.