Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007 :
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c110:S.1348:

George Allen's SKIL bill rises from the dead :
Section entitled "MARKET-BASED VISA LIMITS" doubles number of non-immigrant tech visas to 115,000 a year with 20% more every year.

Visa restricted to tech fields. Other sectors (Legal, medicine, business, defense, services ) remain protected.

Still major problems with the bill: subsidizing wealthy tech companies, business still holds visa, not opening up to other professional fields, not advancing citizenship track employment, not fixing reporting problems and not restricting outsourcing firms control of visa.

I wouldn't have a problem if it was opened up to all professional fields, the "non-immigrant" had an option to
declare for citizenship after a year and could change jobs.

Sounds like pork for Bill Gates.

You are right - it's the nasty Skill bill.  George Allen gets the last laugh.

There are no provisions to prevent abuses.  Nothing in the bill addresses that the top users of the H-1b visa are IT outsourcing firms - most from India.  Nothing addresses that the workers are paid well below American wages.  Nothing addresses the indentured nature of the program.  The only thing it does is expand the program.

If you want to see for yourself which companies used the most H-1b visas in 2006, the list is here: http://www.eetimes.c...

Does that list suggest a shortage being filled, or Americans being displaced?  Why would IT offshoring companies from India get the lions share?

This bill is an insult to working Americans!!!  If it passes in current form there will be hell to pay in 2008.

If we were providing a decent education to kids in this country there wouldn't be a shortage of these skills. Oh, I forgot they want to pay them less. Some say this is a way to screw older American workers. They would rather have cheap labor from overseas than help Americans.

I don't think the working class in America will stand for a bill that tramples on our future.

I am going to be picking through this bill this weekend.  Who knows what will be uncovered.