Session #105 · 1997–99

Speech #1050202760

These are not $5 an hour jobs flipping hamburgers in some fast food joint. These are in my district at Microsoft where we pay 30. 40. 50. $60.000 to these people. and they cannot find an American who qualifies for that job. so they have to go to India. or the Ukraine. or Uganda or somewhere and find them. So when the President says that the focus of this country and this Congress ought to be developing an educational system that prepares our kids for the jobs of the 21st century. he is talking about making Americans available for those H1B visas. The problem in politics is that a lot of times we always think in 2year terms or maybe 4. We do not think about the fact that we are really sewing the seeds for 20 years from now if we dont educate our kids. if in those first 3 years we do not learn to read.
Keywords matched
H1B visas

Classification

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

Speaker & context

Speaker
JIM MCDERMOTT
Party
D
Chamber
H
State
WA
Gender
M
Date
1998-10-10
Speech ID
1050202760
Paragraph
#1
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