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发帖数: 61690 | 1 Silicon Valley prepares to push House toward immigration reform
By Jennifer Martinez - 06/29/13 02:30 PM ET
The tech industry scored two major victories on immigration this week, but
its toughest legislative battle on the issue lies ahead in the House.
The passage of the Senate’s immigration bill is the closest the tech
industry has come in recent years to its primary goals of raising the H-1B
visa cap and securing more green cards for highly skilled foreign workers.
But tech companies, like other stakeholders pushing for immigration reform,
are only at the 50-yard line.
“We want to see the process move forward and this week it did, in a big way
,” said Andy Halataei, director of government relations at the Information
Technology Industry Council. “We have to keep pushing. How and when and
exactly what's going to happen, I don't think anyone knows.”
Tech companies face a fresh set of political challenges in the Republican-
controlled House. The lower chamber’s path forward on immigration
legislation is unclear and time is running out for action.
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The tech industry hopes the murkiness will recede when the House Republican
Conference meets on July 10, after lawmakers return from recess. While final
decisions may not be made during the meeting, tech representatives view the
meeting as the next key marker in the immigration debate and hope to get a
better lay of the land on how the GOP leadership plans to tackle the issue.
That includes whether House Republicans plan to bring the piecemeal bills
passed out of the House Judiciary Committee to the floor before Congress
breaks for August recess.
“After that [meeting], the following three weeks are going to be the most
important three weeks to see action on the House side and see where this is
going,” said Veronica O’Connell, vice president of congressional affairs
at the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA).
The industry remains undeterred despite the outstanding question marks,
arguing that it has too much riding on the passage of immigration reform for
political momentum to die in the House.
“I think from our perspective, failure is not really an option,” said
Peter Muller, director of government relations at Intel. “We've been
waiting so long to address these issues.
“We’ve seen it can be achieved in the Senate. How it can be achieved in
the House is uncertain, but if it can't get done now, it's never going to
get done,” Muller added.
The tech industry took a hard blow when immigration legislation unraveled in
2007 and it is working hard to make sure history doesn’t repeat itself
this time. Tech companies flexed their political muscle during the debate
over a pair of anti-piracy bills last year and with the Senate immigration
bill, and plan to exercise their new influence during the House fight.
“We're going to use every tool that we can come up with to try to encourage
lawmakers to complete this bill this year and to finally address the high-
skilled immigration challenges we have been facing,” Muller said.
That strategy also includes getting face time with top House leaders,
according to CEA’s O’Connell.
“We're going to keep the drum beat going,” she said. “We're going to meet
with leadership on both sides of the House and keep up our messaging.”
After months of hosting fly-in trips and hitting the halls of Congress to
meet with lawmakers, the tech industry was able to thwart attempts to attach
labor-backed amendments into the Senate bill. The amendments would have
made tech companies follow extra requirements when hiring new employees and
given the Department of Labor more oversight on their hiring decisions.
Instead, the immigration bill passed the Senate on Thursday with tech-backed
compromise language on H-1B workers from Sens. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and
Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) intact.
Just a few hours later, an immigration bill by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.)
that would raise the H-1B visa cap and free up more green cards for highly
skilled foreign workers passed the House Judiciary Committee on a mostly
party-line vote.
The committee also adopted a manager’s amendment to the bill, the Skills
Visa Act, that would give U.S. tech companies more flexibility when setting
wages for H-1B workers.
While Democrats backed the underlying goal of Issa’s measure, they voted
against it because it would eliminate the diversity visa program and another
program that awards green cards to siblings of U.S. citizens.
Tech companies gave the bill their full-throated support, although they
acknowledge privately that some improvements should be made to the green
card section of the bill. In particular, the tech industry wants the bill to
allow for unused green cards to be re-allotted within the system.
“The tech community and CEA’s goal is to ensure all the elements of the
Skills Visa Act on the House side, all the victories that were won, stay
intact,” O’Connell said. “We’d like to make some improvements around the
edges, but right now we’re happy.”
Unlike many Washington observers, some tech industry representatives believe
there is still life in the effort by a bipartisan working group of House
members to draft comprehensive immigration legislation, and are waiting for
a bill to materialize.
One tech lobbyist said the group has invested too much time and effort to
not produce legislation, noting that pieces of their legislation could be
tacked on to other bills or offered independently on the floor.
The bipartisan working group met again on Friday before breaking for the
July 4 recess.
“They’ve obviously worked long and hard on something and they have a very
detailed bill that has a role to play in the process,” the lobbyist said.
“I think there’s still some life in that.”
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发帖数: 1430 | 2 Why is the Silicon Valley doing this? Stupid people!
They should join the Republicans in their efforts to pursue CIR.
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【在 b*****d 的大作中提到】
: Silicon Valley prepares to push House toward immigration reform
: By Jennifer Martinez - 06/29/13 02:30 PM ET
: The tech industry scored two major victories on immigration this week, but
: its toughest legislative battle on the issue lies ahead in the House.
: The passage of the Senate’s immigration bill is the closest the tech
: industry has come in recent years to its primary goals of raising the H-1B
: visa cap and securing more green cards for highly skilled foreign workers.
: But tech companies, like other stakeholders pushing for immigration reform,
: are only at the 50-yard line.
: “We want to see the process move forward and this week it did, in a big way
| b*****d
发帖数: 61690 | 3 因为硅谷从小就缺乏舍小家为大家的忧国忧民的教育.
【在 f*******8 的大作中提到】
: Why is the Silicon Valley doing this? Stupid people!
: They should join the Republicans in their efforts to pursue CIR.
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: way
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发帖数: 1125 | 4 顶起
【在 b*****d 的大作中提到】
: 因为硅谷从小就缺乏舍小家为大家的忧国忧民的教育.
| p*********8
发帖数: 957 | 5 feels like passing the bill is not good in the long run. | p**j
发帖数: 7063 | 6 当初STEM根本没有被参议院投票的时候，这帮人在干吗？太虚伪了吧。
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【在 b*****d 的大作中提到】
: Silicon Valley prepares to push House toward immigration reform
: By Jennifer Martinez - 06/29/13 02:30 PM ET
: The tech industry scored two major victories on immigration this week, but
: its toughest legislative battle on the issue lies ahead in the House.
: The passage of the Senate’s immigration bill is the closest the tech
: industry has come in recent years to its primary goals of raising the H-1B
: visa cap and securing more green cards for highly skilled foreign workers.
: But tech companies, like other stakeholders pushing for immigration reform,
: are only at the 50-yard line.
: “We want to see the process move forward and this week it did, in a big way
| b*****d
发帖数: 61690 | 7 因为人家知道那是show vote,没有通过的可能.当然如果您相信您比那些硅谷雇用的政
治顾问们更懂美国的国会,我也无话可说了.反正也不能证明otherwise.不像总统大选,
对错,投完票就知道了.
【在 p**j 的大作中提到】
: 当初STEM根本没有被参议院投票的时候，这帮人在干吗？太虚伪了吧。
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: way
| h**u
发帖数: 146 | 8 那个STEM众议院共和党明知道民主党不可能同意把绿卡摇奖去掉让给STEM，还搞投票。 | p**j
发帖数: 7063 | 9 这次大赦里面也有把摇奖绿卡去掉，为什么就同意了呢？不是虚伪是什么？
【在 h**u 的大作中提到】
: 那个STEM众议院共和党明知道民主党不可能同意把绿卡摇奖去掉让给STEM，还搞投票。
| p**j
发帖数: 7063 | 10 这次也不能过众议院，同样也是show vote，这时候就知道跳出来，上次连屁也不放一
个，这次吵那么欢，明显是为了政治挂帅，支持合法移民是假，反共和党是真。殊不知
，到时候民主党税收不够，先拿这些有钱人开刀，再来搞一个高科技公司平权法案，要
他们必须招收一定比例老黑老莫。
他们要真不是作秀，就应该给民主党压力，让他们接受house的piecemeal，先通过合法
移民部分。
【在 b*****d 的大作中提到】
: 因为人家知道那是show vote,没有通过的可能.当然如果您相信您比那些硅谷雇用的政
: 治顾问们更懂美国的国会,我也无话可说了.反正也不能证明otherwise.不像总统大选,
: 对错,投完票就知道了.
| h**u
发帖数: 146 | 11 为了非法那部分，摇奖就不那么重要了。单独搞，民主党就不会愿意。两党都虚伪。
【在 p**j 的大作中提到】
: 这次大赦里面也有把摇奖绿卡去掉，为什么就同意了呢？不是虚伪是什么？
| A**Y
发帖数: 150 | 12 兄弟我也反对大赦，不过看来硅谷的人看清了只有把非法合法捆绑合法才有可能过（否
则民主党根本不可能支持）。
【在 p**j 的大作中提到】
: 这次也不能过众议院，同样也是show vote，这时候就知道跳出来，上次连屁也不放一
: 个，这次吵那么欢，明显是为了政治挂帅，支持合法移民是假，反共和党是真。殊不知
: ，到时候民主党税收不够，先拿这些有钱人开刀，再来搞一个高科技公司平权法案，要
: 他们必须招收一定比例老黑老莫。
: 他们要真不是作秀，就应该给民主党压力，让他们接受house的piecemeal，先通过合法
: 移民部分。
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