Session #109 · 2005–07

Speech #1090132056

So the current bill doubles and even triples the number of foreign guest workers who could enter the United States over the 6 years of our amendment. I hope this amendment will pass. I would hope that we could eliminate the escalators in these visa programs. The HlB visa escalator would have a total of 3.67 million people over the next 10 years coming in under an HlB visa. We increase the H1B from 56.000 to 115.000. and then we put in a 20percent escalator each year. If the number of visas reached the 115.000and it willtherefore. the next year you add 20 percent. Then if that is reached. you add another 20 percent. And it compounds in this manner to the tune of a total of 3.6 million.
Keywords matched
visa H1B visas

Classification

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

Speaker & context

Speaker
DIANNE FEINSTEIN
Party
D
Chamber
S
State
CA
Gender
F
Date
2006-05-16
Speech ID
1090132056
Paragraph
#1
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