Making appropriations for the Department of Transportation and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1999, and for other purposes.
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.)