Speaker. I rise today in support of the rule. but in strong opposition to H.R. 3736. a bill which would raise the annual number of hightech jobs given to foreign workers. Currently the INS issues 65.000 H1B visas per year to highly skilled noncitizen technical workers. H.R. 3736. in response to hightech industrys claim that there is a crisis in the shortage of trained American workers. would increase the H1B cap to 115.000 jobs in 1999 and 2000. and 107.000 jobs the following year. That is over 200.000 jobs going to foreign workers. Big business claim that there is a worker shortage curiously comes at a time when our Nations hightech companies have laid off over 200.000 American employees. this year.
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