Attempted to protect U.S. high-tech workers in 1998
Before the Senate passed the H-1B doubling bill (S.1723), Sen. ZZlastnameZZ voted for the Kennedy amendment (A-2418) that would have protected American workers from the worst abuses that the federal Inspector General found in the H-1B program. ZZgender1CZZ voted for the Kennedy amendment
Attempted to protect U.S. high-tech workers in 1998
Before the Senate passed the H-1B doubling bill (S.1723), Sen. ZZlastnameZZ voted for a Kennedy amendment that would have protected American
workers from the worst abuses that the federal Inspector General found in the H-1B program. ZZgender1CZZ voted to required U.S. firms to check a box on a form attesting that they had first sought an American worker for the job. That failed 39-59.
Opposed doubling of H-1B foreign high-tech workers in 1998
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to make changes relating to H-1B nonimmigrants.
Voted in committee to preventdisplacement of American workers in 1998
The Committee voted on a Kennedy-Feinstein Amendment to S.1723 that would have accomplished two important goals: That no American was laid off or displaced prior to hiring an H1B employee; and, that employers demonstrate they had taken timely and effective steps to hire a qualified American. Though Sen. ZZlastnameZZ supported this amendment, it failed by a vote of 8-10.
Tried to stop Judiciary Committee from reporting out H-1B doubling bill in 1998
Sen. ZZlastnameZZ voted no in the 12-6 Senate Judiciary Committee vote on S.1723. This was a vote not to send the H-1B doubling bill to the floor of the Senate without safeguards for American workers.
1998: Sponsored H.R. 3553, Central American and Caribbean Refugee Adjustment Act of 1998, introduced by Rep. Luis Gutiérrez (D-Ill.)
H.R. 3553, the Central American and Caribbean Refugee Adjustment Act, would have awarded amnesty to almost 1.2 million illegal immigrants, in addition to the almost one million who were granted amnesty in 1997.