Only after serious efforts to find American applicants to fill vacancies have been exhausted are guest worker programs justifiable. Much has been done in the course of consideration of this legislation to ensure more due diligence on the part of employers to look first to Americans to fill jobs. Moreover. we need to be judicious when it comes to determining the number of guest worker visas that are needed. This shouldnt be an excessively high number that increases automatically every year. Instead. it should match actual needs. Thats why I supported a number of amendments by my colleagues to place certain caps on the number of guest worker visas that are granted. As Ive already said. the numbers of visas should match needs. If at any point in the future the U.S. government determines that needs arent being met. then we can always change the numbers to reflect the facts on the ground. But we need to turn to American workers first. not foreign workers.