Committee Amendment

2015: Senate Budget Committee vote on Sen. Jeff Sessions' Amdt. to S.Con.Res. 11

Voted in committee against the Section 245(i) amnesty in 2002

Voted in committee for worker protections in 2000
Rep. ZZlastnameZZ voted as part of the House Judiciary Committee for the Smith/Jackson Lee/Goodlatte Amendment to H.R.4227. This amendment required that the worker protections from the 1998 AICWA (H-1B) bill be in effect by September 1, 2000. These are important worker protections that were included in the 1998 H-1B increase bill, but have yet to be put into effect. The amendment passed 24-7.

Voted in committee to reduce H-1B cap increase in 2000
Sen. ZZlastnameZZ voted in committee for the Kennedy amendment to reduce the overall H-1B increase proposed in S.2045 from about 200,000 to around 150,000. In addition, the Kennedy amendment would have rasied the fees paid by employers of H-1B visa holders and required employers to attest they had not displaced U.S. workers to hire H-1Bs. The amendment was defeated 8-10.

Supported a committee amendment to require Department of Agriculture contractors to use E-Verify in 2009.
Rep. ZZlastnameZZ supported the Calvert amendment to H.R. 2997, the 2010 Agriculture Appropriations bill. The amendment would have required all Dept. of Agriculture contractors and subcontractors to use the E-Verify system to verify the eligibility of their employees. The amendment failed in the House Appropriations Committee 23-34.

Voted in committee against tripling of the H-2B visa cap in 2008
Sen. zzlastnameZZ, as a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, voted against Sen. Mikulski's amendment to the Iraq Supplemental bill (H.R. 2642). This amendment triples H-2B cap (temporary, non-agricultural workers) from 66,000 to 198,000. This amendment passed in committee (23-6), but was stripped from the final bill.

Voted in committee against amendment to strike provision from H.R. 10 to ensure that terrorists and dangerous criminals are deported in 2004

Voted in committee against amendment to eliminate document security provision from H.R. 10 in 2004

Voted in committee to protect American workers in 1998.

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.

Voted in favor of legal immigration reform in 1996
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