For instance. the issue with respect to physical therapists taking 26 percent of these positionswe do not know that is the percentage of applications that have come to INS. And our legislation attempts to do two things to address it. First. it attempts to force INS to tell us not what the application numbers are but who actually gets the H1B positions. We need to know that to shape this program more effectively. Second. with respect to health care workers and physical therapists. and so on. our legislation actually attempts to put a cap on that category of 10.000. so that. in fact. 26 or 30 percent of whatever of the H1B visas cannot go into that category. The legislation that the Senator from California alludes to. that would not put that cap in place. means that literally all of the positions could go to these categories that I think most of us would agree do not need to be filled with H1B workers. In fact. our legislation. the bill before us. attempts to move us in a direction to attempt to address that problem. Next. with respect to the actual numbers themselves. the statistics of the Senator from California are not accurate. Currently. if we do nothing legislatively. 325.000 people will come in over the next 5 years under the H1B program. Our legislation increases that amount by 30.000 per year to- 475.000. And the amount that was referenced with respect to health care workers comes out of that 95.000.
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