Voted in committee in favor of amendment to cut in half proposal to import additional foreign workers in 2005
Sen. ZZlastnameZZ voted as part of the Judiciary Committee in favor of the Feinstein Amendment to the Specter Budget Reconciliation Plan that was attached to Deficit Reduction Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 2005, S. 1932. The Feinstein Amendment cut the additional H-1B visas proposed in the Specter proposal in half (from 60,000 to 30,000) and added a $750 fee on L-1 visas. The Specter plan (as amendment and passed by the Senate Judiciary Committee) would increase permanent, employment-based immigration by nearly tripling the number of foreign workers who can enter the U.S. each year. As well, it exempts workers families from the 140,000-visa cap on employment-based immigration. It also raises the cap on employment-based permanent immigration by adding each year the lesser of 90,000 visas or any unused emplo
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