Session #109 · 2005–07

Speech #1090120034

Some might ask: Why do we need this extension? The chairman has included a temporary guest worker program in his bill. We need to make sure we do not forget the needs of small and seasonal businesses in this immigrant debate. I welcome the guest worker program that is before the Senate. Once the program is up and running. it will help the H2B program. But right now we need to make sure there is no interruption so that companies can meet their hiring needs when American workers dont apply for these jobs. when the cap has already been reached. The first half of the cap of 33.000 was
Keywords matched
immigrant H2B

Classification

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

Speaker & context

Speaker
BARBARA MIKULSKI
Party
D
Chamber
S
State
MD
Gender
F
Date
2006-03-30
Speech ID
1090120034
Paragraph
#5
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