400 Votes In Favor of H-1B Extensions

Date: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 1:19 AM

H-1B and JOB DESTRUCTION NEWSLETTER

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Out of 422 House members, 400 of them voted in favor of the Bush proposal
that allows H-1Bs to stay in the U.S. indefinitely. The new law, Public Law
107-273, allows one year stays on approvals for H-1B Visa Holders above and
beyond their 6 year limits. They can renew their visa as long as they are
working here. See the following link:
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/xml/comp/articleshow?artid=27405516

Notice that the former foe of H-1B, Tom Tancredo of Colorado, also voted for
this. Tancredo's shift in favor of increasing nonimmigrant work visas was
first noted in a previous newsletter in regards to his H-2C program.
Tancredo's H-2C proposal will allow 500,000 aliens to work in the USA
indefinitely with one year approvals. Tancredo used to say that he opposed
the high numbers of H-1B visas, and he even said he that he was going to try
to limit the number of visas issued per year. He has obviously decided that
it's easier and more politically profitable to support H-1B and other work
visas.

Both parties supported this legislation. Here is the tally:
http://clerkweb.house.gov/cgi-bin/vote.exe?year=2002&rollnumber=422
Republicans: 206
Democrats: 193

If anyone on this newsletter has been feeling optimistic that progress has
been made against H-1B, THINK AGAIN! The overwhelming majority of our
politicians can't get enough of these work visas. Their campaign
contributions are far more important than a few unemployed techies.

So far this story has had very little U.S. media coverage but it's all over
Indian websites.

http://capwiz.com/c-span/issues/votes/?votenum=422&chamber=H&congress=1072&printer=1

Roll Call Vote No. 422 Tally

(For more information about a Member, highlight the name and click "Go")

Yea : 400 Members
Robert Aderholt (R-AL)
Robert Cramer (D-AL)
Terry Everett (R-AL)
Earl Hilliard (D-AL)
Bob Riley (R-AL)
Marion Berry (D-AR)
John Boozman (R-AR)
Mike Ross (D-AR)
Vic Snyder (D-AR)
J.D. Hayworth (R-AZ)
Jim Kolbe (R-AZ)
Ed Pastor (D-AZ)
Joe Baca (D-CA)
Xavier Becerra (D-CA)
Howard Berman (D-CA)
Mary Bono (R-CA)
Lois Capps (D-CA)
Christopher Cox (R-CA)
Randy Cunningham (R-CA)
Susan Davis (D-CA)
John Doolittle (R-CA)
David Dreier (R-CA)
Anna Eshoo (D-CA)
Sam Farr (D-CA)
Bob Filner (D-CA)
Elton Gallegly (R-CA)
Jane Harman (D-CA)
Wally Herger (R-CA)
Michael Honda (D-CA)
Steve Horn (R-CA)
Duncan Hunter (R-CA)
Darrell Issa (R-CA)
Tom Lantos (D-CA)
Barbara Lee (D-CA)
Jerry Lewis (R-CA)
Zoe Lofgren (D-CA)
Robert Matsui (D-CA)
Howard McKeon (R-CA)
Juanita Millender-McDonald (D-CA)
Gary Miller (R-CA)
George Miller (D-CA)
Grace Napolitano (D-CA)
Doug Ose (R-CA)
Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)
Richard Pombo (R-CA)
George Radanovich (R-CA)
Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA)
Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA)
Ed Royce (R-CA)
Loretta Sanchez (D-CA)
Adam Schiff (D-CA)
Brad Sherman (D-CA)
Hilda Solis (D-CA)
Fortney Stark (D-CA)
Ellen Tauscher (D-CA)
William Thomas (R-CA)
Maxine Waters (D-CA)
Diane Watson (D-CA)
Lynn Woolsey (D-CA)
Diana DeGette (D-CO)
Joel Hefley (R-CO)
Scott McInnis (R-CO)
Bob Schaffer (R-CO)
Thomas Tancredo (R-CO)
Mark Udall (D-CO)
Rosa DeLauro (D-CT)
Nancy Johnson (R-CT)
John Larson (D-CT)
James Maloney (D-CT)
Christopher Shays (R-CT)
Robert Simmons (R-CT)
Michael Castle (R-DE)
Michael Bilirakis (R-FL)
F. Allen Boyd (D-FL)
Corrine Brown (D-FL)
Ander Crenshaw (R-FL)
Jim Davis (D-FL)
Peter Deutsch (D-FL)
Lincoln Diaz-Balart (R-FL)
Mark Foley (R-FL)
Porter Goss (R-FL)
Alcee Hastings (D-FL)
Ric Keller (R-FL)
John Mica (R-FL)
Dan Miller (R-FL)
Jeff Miller (R-FL)
Adam Putnam (R-FL)
E. Clay Shaw (R-FL)
Cliff Stearns (R-FL)
Dave Weldon (R-FL)
Robert Wexler (D-FL)
C.W. Young (R-FL)
Bob Barr (R-GA)
Sanford Bishop (D-GA)
Saxby Chambliss (R-GA)
Michael Collins (R-GA)
Nathan Deal (R-GA)
Johnny Isakson (R-GA)
Jack Kingston (R-GA)
John Lewis (D-GA)
John Linder (R-GA)
Charles Norwood (R-GA)
Neil Abercrombie (D-HI)
Leonard Boswell (D-IA)
Greg Ganske (R-IA)
Tom Latham (R-IA)
Jim Leach (R-IA)
Jim Nussle (R-IA)
C.L. Otter (R-ID)
Judy Biggert (R-IL)
Rod Blagojevich (D-IL)
Jerry Costello (D-IL)
Philip Crane (R-IL)
Danny Davis (D-IL)
Lane Evans (D-IL)
Luis Gutierrez (D-IL)
Henry Hyde (R-IL)
Jesse Jackson (D-IL)
Timothy Johnson (R-IL)
Mark Kirk (R-IL)
Ray LaHood (R-IL)
William Lipinski (D-IL)
Donald Manzullo (R-IL)
David Phelps (D-IL)
Bobby Rush (D-IL)
Janice Schakowsky (D-IL)
John Shimkus (R-IL)
Jerry Weller (R-IL)
Dan Burton (R-IN)
Steve Buyer (R-IN)
Julia Carson (D-IN)
Baron Hill (D-IN)
John Hostettler (R-IN)
Mike Pence (R-IN)
Tim Roemer (D-IN)
Mark Souder (R-IN)
Peter Visclosky (D-IN)
Dennis Moore (D-KS)
Jerry Moran (R-KS)
Jim Ryun (R-KS)
Todd Tiahrt (R-KS)
Ernest Lee Fletcher (R-KY)
Ron Lewis (R-KY)
Ken Lucas (D-KY)
Anne Northup (R-KY)
Harold Rogers (R-KY)
Edward Whitfield (R-KY)
Richard Baker (R-LA)
John Cooksey (R-LA)
William Jefferson (D-LA)
Chris John (D-LA)
Jim McCrery (R-LA)
W.J. Tauzin (R-LA)
David Vitter (R-LA)
Michael Capuano (D-MA)
William Delahunt (D-MA)
Barney Frank (D-MA)
Stephen Lynch (D-MA)
Edward Markey (D-MA)
James McGovern (D-MA)
Marty Meehan (D-MA)
Richard Neal (D-MA)
John Olver (D-MA)
John Tierney (D-MA)
Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD)
Benjamin Cardin (D-MD)
Elijah Cummings (D-MD)
Steny Hoyer (D-MD)
Connie Morella (R-MD)
Albert Wynn (D-MD)
Thomas Allen (D-ME)
John Baldacci (D-ME)
Dave Camp (R-MI)
John Dingell (D-MI)
Vernon Ehlers (R-MI)
Peter Hoekstra (R-MI)
Dale Kildee (D-MI)
Carolyn Kilpatrick (D-MI)
Joseph Knollenberg (R-MI)
Sander Levin (D-MI)
Lynn Rivers (D-MI)
Michael Rogers (R-MI)
Bart Stupak (D-MI)
Fred Upton (R-MI)
Gil Gutknecht (R-MN)
Mark Kennedy (R-MN)
Bill Luther (D-MN)
Betty McCollum (D-MN)
James Oberstar (D-MN)
Collin Peterson (D-MN)
Jim Ramstad (R-MN)
Martin Olav Sabo (D-MN)
Todd Akin (R-MO)
Roy Blunt (R-MO)
William Clay (D-MO)
Jo Ann Emerson (R-MO)
Richard Gephardt (D-MO)
Sam Graves (R-MO)
Kenny Hulshof (R-MO)
Karen McCarthy (D-MO)

Ike Skelton (D-MO)

Charles Pickering (R-MS)
Ronnie Shows (D-MS)
Gene Taylor (D-MS)
Bennie Thompson (D-MS)
Roger Wicker (R-MS)
Dennis Rehberg (R-MT)
Cass Ballenger (R-NC)
Richard Burr (R-NC)
Howard Coble (R-NC)
Bob Etheridge (D-NC)
Robin Hayes (R-NC)
Walter Jones (R-NC)
Mike McIntyre (D-NC)
Sue Myrick (R-NC)
David Price (D-NC)
Charles Taylor (R-NC)
Melvin Watt (D-NC)
Earl Pomeroy (D-ND)
Doug Bereuter (R-NE)
Tom Osborne (R-NE)
Lee Terry (R-NE)
Charles Bass (R-NH)
John Sununu (R-NH)
Robert Andrews (D-NJ)
Michael Ferguson (R-NJ)
Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-NJ)
Rush Holt (D-NJ)
Frank LoBiondo (R-NJ)
Robert Menendez (D-NJ)
Frank Pallone (D-NJ)
Bill Pascrell (D-NJ)
Donald Payne (D-NJ)
Steven Rothman (D-NJ)
Jim Saxton (R-NJ)
Christopher Smith (R-NJ)
Joe Skeen (R-NM)
Tom Udall (D-NM)
Heather Wilson (R-NM)
Shelley Berkley (D-NV)
James Gibbons (R-NV)
Gary Ackerman (D-NY)
Sherwood Boehlert (R-NY)
Joseph Crowley (D-NY)
Eliot Engel (D-NY)
Vito Fossella (R-NY)
Benjamin Gilman (R-NY)
Felix Grucci (R-NY)
Maurice Hinchey (D-NY)
Amory Houghton (R-NY)
Sue Kelly (R-NY)
Peter King (R-NY)
John LaFalce (D-NY)
Nita Lowey (D-NY)
Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY)
John McHugh (R-NY)
Michael McNulty (D-NY)
Gregory Meeks (D-NY)
Jerrold Nadler (D-NY)
Major Owens (D-NY)
Jack Quinn (R-NY)
Charles Rangel (D-NY)
Thomas Reynolds (R-NY)
Jose Serrano (D-NY)
Louise McIntosh Slaughter (D-NY)
John Sweeney (R-NY)
Edolphus Towns (D-NY)
Nydia Velazquez (D-NY)
James Walsh (R-NY)
Anthony David Weiner (D-NY)
John Boehner (R-OH)
Sherrod Brown (D-OH)
Steve Chabot (R-OH)
Paul Gillmor (R-OH)
David Hobson (R-OH)
Marcy Kaptur (D-OH)
Dennis Kucinich (D-OH)
Steven LaTourette (R-OH)
Bob Ney (R-OH)
Michael Oxley (R-OH)
Rob Portman (R-OH)
Deborah Pryce (R-OH)
Ralph Regula (R-OH)
Thomas Sawyer (D-OH)
Ted Strickland (D-OH)
Patrick Tiberi (R-OH)
Stephanie Tubbs Jones (D-OH)
Brad Carson (D-OK)
Ernest Istook (R-OK)
Frank Lucas (R-OK)
John Sullivan (R-OK)
Wes Watkins (R-OK)
J.C. Watts (R-OK)
Peter DeFazio (D-OR)
Darlene Hooley (D-OR)
Greg Walden (R-OR)
David Wu (D-OR)
Robert Borski (D-PA)
Robert Brady (D-PA)
William Coyne (D-PA)
Mike Doyle (D-PA)
Philip English (R-PA)
Chaka Fattah (D-PA)
George Gekas (R-PA)
Jim Greenwood (R-PA)
Melissa Hart (R-PA)
Joseph Hoeffel (D-PA)
Tim Holden (D-PA)
Paul Kanjorski (D-PA)
Frank Mascara (D-PA)
John Murtha (D-PA)
John Peterson (R-PA)
Joseph Pitts (R-PA)
Todd Platts (R-PA)
Don Sherwood (R-PA)
Bill Shuster (R-PA)
Pat Toomey (R-PA)
Curt Weldon (R-PA)
Patrick Kennedy (D-RI)
James Langevin (D-RI)
Henry Brown (R-SC)
James Clyburn (D-SC)
Jim DeMint (R-SC)
Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
John Spratt (D-SC)
Joe Wilson (R-SC)
John Thune (R-SD)
Ed Bryant (R-TN)
Bob Clement (D-TN)
Harold Ford (D-TN)
Bart Gordon (D-TN)
Van Hilleary (R-TN)
William Jenkins (R-TN)
John Tanner (D-TN)
Zach Wamp (R-TN)
Richard Armey (R-TX)
Joe Barton (R-TX)
Ken Bentsen (D-TX)
Henry Bonilla (R-TX)
Kevin Brady (R-TX)
Larry Combest (R-TX)
John Culberson (R-TX)
Tom DeLay (R-TX)
Lloyd Doggett (D-TX)
Chet Edwards (D-TX)
Martin Frost (D-TX)
Charles Gonzalez (D-TX)
Kay Granger (R-TX)
Gene Green (D-TX)
Ralph Hall (D-TX)
Ruben Hinojosa (D-TX)
Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX)
Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX)
Sam Johnson (R-TX)
Nicholas Lampson (D-TX)
Solomon Ortiz (D-TX)
Silvestre Reyes (D-TX)
Ciro Rodriguez (D-TX)
Max Sandlin (D-TX)
Pete Sessions (R-TX)
Lamar Smith (R-TX)
Charles Stenholm (D-TX)
William Thornberry (R-TX)
Jim Turner (D-TX)
Chris Cannon (R-UT)
James Hansen (R-UT)
James Matheson (D-UT)
Rick Boucher (D-VA)
Eric Cantor (R-VA)
Jo Ann Davis (R-VA)
Thomas Davis (R-VA)
Randy Forbes (R-VA)
Virgil Goode (R-VA)
Bob Goodlatte (R-VA)
James Moran (D-VA)
Edward Schrock (R-VA)
Bobby Scott (D-VA)
Frank Wolf (R-VA)
Bernard Sanders (I-VT)
Brian Baird (D-WA)
Norman Dicks (D-WA)
Jennifer Dunn (R-WA)
Doc Hastings (R-WA)
Jay Inslee (D-WA)
Rick Larsen (D-WA)
George Nethercutt (R-WA)
Adam Smith (D-WA)
Tammy Baldwin (D-WI)
Thomas Barrett (D-WI)
Mark Green (R-WI)
Ron Kind (D-WI)
Jerry Kleczka (D-WI)
David Obey (D-WI)
Thomas Petri (R-WI)
Paul Ryan (R-WI)
F. James Sensenbrenner (R-WI)
Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV)
Alan Mollohan (D-WV)
Nick Rahall (D-WV)
Barbara Cubin (R-WY)

Nay : 4 Members
Jeff Flake (R-AZ)
Brian Kerns (R-IN)

John Duncan (R-TN)

Ron Paul (R-TX)

Not Voting : 28 Members
Don Young (R-AK)
Spencer Bachus (R-AL)
Sonny Callahan (R-AL)
John Shadegg (R-AZ)
Bob Stump (R-AZ)
Ken Calvert (R-CA)
Gary Condit (D-CA)
Calvin Dooley (D-CA)
Mike Thompson (D-CA)
Henry Waxman (D-CA)
Carrie Meek (D-FL)
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL)
Karen Thurman (D-FL)
Cynthia McKinney (D-GA)

Patsy Mink (D-HI)

Mike Simpson (R-ID)
Robert Ehrlich (R-MD)
Wayne Gilchrest (R-MD)
James Barcia (D-MI)
David Bonior (D-MI)
John Conyers (D-MI)
Nick Smith (R-MI)
Eva Clayton (D-NC)
Marge Roukema (R-NJ)
Steve Israel (D-NY)
Carolyn Maloney (D-NY)
Earl Blumenauer (D-OR)
Jim McDermott (D-WA)

Speaker : 1 Member
J. Dennis Hastert (R-IL)

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