Session #105 · 1997–99

Speech #1050201760

President. I just want to explain why I object to this bill. This is the bill that would have increased the number of H1B visas from 65.000 per year to 115.000 for next year and the year after. then drop down to 107.500 in 2001 and back down to 65.000 thereafter. Now. ostensibly. the reason for doing this. and why this came up in the last couple of years. is that there was projected to be a big shortage in computer programmers. Thus. there was this big push to increase the number of H1B visas. to get these computer programmers. It turns out that has. indeed. not happened. In fact.
Keywords matched
H1B visas

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Neutral
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
90%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Economic contributor Legal / procedural

Speaker & context

Speaker
THOMAS HARKIN
Party
D
Chamber
S
State
IA
Gender
M
Date
1998-10-09
Speech ID
1050201760
Paragraph
#0
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