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Madame Speaker,

  • May. 1st, 2008 at 6:36 PM
I support HR5924. Yesterday I sent $400 to a lobby group supporting immigrant nurse legislation. I heard that "House Democratic leadership" are coupling HR5924 with issues around illegal immigration. Force the objectives of the Hispanic Caucus to stand or fall on their own merits! Blocking HR5924 means raising medical care costs and jeopardizing American leadership in software and other high-tech. Raise medical costs and erode technical leadership... for what?

I am a Democrat. I will spend more money and I will oppose Democrats who stand in the way of HR5924. Don't squander our party's leadership position by holding our national interests hostage.

Comments

[info]taral wrote:
May. 3rd, 2008 09:19 am (UTC)
I <3 OpenCongress:

http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h5924/show

I also support this, even if my opinion doesn't count.
[info]mcfnord wrote:
May. 3rd, 2008 10:40 pm (UTC)
cool site. i typically don't care about individual bills so much but kookoo has been patiently waiting for Congress to make good on their "nursing shortage" claim. and more generally i have considered the skilled immigration debate and consider it an exceptional idea. it has been tangled up with the illegal immigration debate too long and that needs to get fixed.