Session #105 · 1997–99

Speech #1050139884

Mr. President. in my amendment we are basically saying let the best and the brightest come into the United States on the basis of their extraordinary contributions in our research facilities or universities or other places. But the fact of the matter is that most of jobs for which employers seek H1B workers pay $75.000 or less. and 75 percent of them are $50.000 or less. Those are good jobs for Americans. We are saying: Make sure you are going to offer it to an American before you are going to apply to hire a foreign worker. We prescribe in our amendment that recruitment standard is whatever the industry does normally when recruiting workers.
Keywords matched
H1B

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Neutral
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
100%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Economic contributor Legal / procedural

Speaker & context

Speaker
EDWARD KENNEDY
Party
D
Chamber
S
State
MA
Gender
M
Date
1998-05-13
Speech ID
1050139884
Paragraph
#0
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