appan said:
http://www.house.gov/jerrylewis/contact.html
Enter
H.R. 139 in the Bill Number .You can see the status
Appan,
The one that was approved was H.R. 1268 (Emergency Supplemental Appropriations) The amendment in that is Amendment SA 379.
Go to
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:HR1268: and then go to All Congressional Actions with Amendments
Here is the text of the proceedings "
Mrs. HUTCHISON. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that reading of the amendment be dispensed with.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
The amendment, as modified, is as follows:
(Purpose: To make unused EB3 visas available to bring nurses to the United States through Department of State procedures)
On page 231, between lines 3 and 4, insert the following new section:
RECAPTURE OF VISAS
SEC. 6047. Section 106(d)(2)(A) of the American Competitiveness in the Twenty-first Century Act of 2000 (Public Law 106-313; 8 U.S.C. 1153 note) is amended--
(1) in paragraph (1), by inserting before the period at the end of the second sentence ``and any such visa that is made available due to the difference between the number of employment-based visas that were made available in fiscal year 2001, 2002, 2003, or 2004 and the number of such visas that were actually used in such fiscal year shall be available only to employment-based immigrants, and the dependents of such immigrants, and 50% of such visas shall be made available to those whose immigrant worker petitions were approved based on schedule A, as defined in section 656.5 of title 20, Code of Federal Regulations, as promulgated by the Secretary of Labor''; and
(2) in paragraph (2)(A), by striking ``and 2000'' and inserting ``through 2004''.
Mrs. HUTCHISON.
Mr. President, this is an amendment to recapture unused EB-3 visas. Senator Schumer, Senator Kennedy and I have worked on this to try to assure that 50 percent of the unused EB-3 visas help resolve our serious nursing shortage. It is very important. These visas go out of existence and cannot be recaptured except by an act of Congress. They have already been authorized. We need to recapture the unused visas from 2001 to 2004, add to the number of nurses we can bring to our country,
as well as the EB-3 engineers and educated workforce that are waiting in the wings.
Mr. President, I ask all of my colleagues to support this amendment.
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Hope that answers Sada's question too
Sandeep