ITI URGES
SENATE TO FINISH COMPREHENSIVE IMMIGRATION LEGISLATION
06.08.2007
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ITI URGES SENATE TO FINISH COMPREHENSIVE
IMMIGRATION LEGISLATION
America’s Leadership of Innovation Economy at Risk,
ITI Warns
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Information
Technology Industry Council (ITI) Senior Vice President of Government Relations
Ralph Hellmann today urged the Senate to complete work on the Comprehensive
Immigration Reform Act (S. 1348). Noting progress in Senate negotiations
on provisions critical to the high tech industry, Hellmann warned that Senate
delay could compromise America’s leadership in the global innovation
economy.
“We are encouraged by the steady and substantive progress in Senate
negotiations on the bill, especially work on an amendment that would address
serious employment-based green card and H-1B visa shortages, ” Hellmann
said. “The Senate is too close to halt this process. The
highly skilled labor problem has reached a crisis level for the high tech industry
and must be addressed now.”
“At stake in this debate is the ability of American companies to compete
for the world's leading scientists and engineers. The efforts of Senators Cantwell,
Kyl, Cornyn and Specter represent real progress for the high tech industry. Their
bipartisan work could provide the necessary tools to help maintain our competitive
and technological edge in an increasingly competitive global economy.
“ITI remains committed to helping the Senate process and urges the Senate
to get S. 1348 over the finish line.”
ABOUT ITI
The Information Technology Industry Council (ITI) is an elite group of the
nation's top high-tech companies and is widely recognized as the tech industry's
most effective lobbying organization in Washington. ITI helps member
companies achieve their policy objectives through building relationships with
Members of Congress, Administration officials, and foreign governments; organizing
industry-wide consensus on policy issues; and working to enact tech-friendly
government policies.
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ITI member companies include Accenture, Agilent Technologies, AMD, Apple, Applied Materials, Canon U.S.A., Cisco, ca, Corning, Dell, Eastman Kodak, eBay, EMC, Hewlett-Packard, Honeywell, IBM, Intel, Intuit, Lenovo, Lexmark, Micron, Microsoft, Monster, National Semiconductor, NCR, Oracle, Panasonic, SAP, Sony Electronics, Sun Microsystems, Symbol Technologies, Tektronix, Texas Instruments, Time Warner, Unisys, Verisign and Vonage.
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