For those Members watching and listening right now. in the entire history of this program there have only been eight willful violations of hundreds of thousands of casesonly eight willful violations in this program. and each has been punished. Our legislation says even though that is a tremendous track record and a great expression of the fact that this is a program not being abused. we want to go further. We have dramatically toughened the penalties in such a way that if anybody willfully violates the provisions of using H1B employees and H1B visa holders and lays off someoneMr. President. that has only happened one time in the entire history of the programif it happens. if somebody is displaced for an H1B employee. then the company involved will be debarred and prevented from even using the H1B program for 2 years. In addition. they would pay a $25.000 penalty fine per violation. In short. we have addressed each of the things that have been raised by Senator KENNEDY.
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