Grassley: Administration Acts on its Own "to the Detriment of American Workers"

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[ObamahatesPACoal]

On the Senate floor yesterday, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, decried the Obama Administration’s proposed rule giving work permits to the spouses of certain H-1B visa holders. He said Congress did not authorize the Administration proposal. “They act on their own,” Sen. Grassley said. “And, they do it to the detriment of American workers.”

Sen. Grassley argued the proposal will allow more foreign workers “to come, work, and compete with U. S. workers in high-skilled fields despite the well-documented fraud in the H-1B program.

[ObamahatesPACoal]

This guy is a farmer from Iowa who never went to law school, never practiced law, and he could be serving as the next Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

[Wolfie]

And yet he wants the President to have fast-track authority on the TPP. Go figure.

[okie01]

This guy is a farmer from Iowa who never went to law school, never practiced law, and he could be serving as the next Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Personally, I'd call that a good thing.

I gather you wouldn't. Why? Cannot "ordinary" people supervise lawyers?

[beandog]

What exactly is wrong with that.

[ObamahatesPACoal]

It’s a joke. Braley(D) the leading Democrat to replace Harkin said that to some Trial lawyers in Texas.

http://www.politico.com/story/2014/03/bruce-braley-chuck-grassley-farmer-with-no-law-degree-105010.html

Braley is pro-amnesty and totally clueless on immigration compared to a farmer like Grassley.

[kearnyirish2]

“Sen. Grassley argued the proposal will allow more foreign workers “to come, work, and compete with U. S. workers in high-skilled fields despite the well-documented fraud in the H-1B program.”

This is pure theater; both parties have sold out the American worker.

[uncommonsense]

"This is pure theater; both parties have sold out the American worker."

Exactly. My last job in a big high tech company in Atlanta, I thought I was in Bangalore - a city of cubicles of H1B's from India! Talk about being discriminated against in one's own country...

[kearnyirish2]

“My last job in a big high tech company in Atlanta, I thought I was in Bangalore - a city of cubicles of H1B’s from India! Talk about being discriminated against in one’s own country...”

It isn’t even just tech; Asians are being imported for financial jobs now as well. For the life of me I can’t understand how anyone today feels an ounce of patriotism; I just look at it as a tenant/landlord arrangement, and I pay thousands per month in rent to various levels of government.

[ilovesarah2012]

We have more than enough lawyers screwing up America. We need more farmers!