This page contains bills sponsored by incumbent Senators who are running for re-election in 2008, plus House incumbents running for Senate in 2008. Bill sponsorships indicate the topics that legislators are most interested in, and spend the most time on. These bills are selected as the "signature issue" that each legislator focused on.

08-S2839 on Apr 10, 2008

• Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to extend the annual cap exemption for returning H-2B aliens (temporary nonagricultural workers).
• Revises H-1B nonimmigrant visa (specialty occupation) provisions for increases from numerical limitations for aliens with higher education degrees.
• Increases the annual limit for National Science Foundation low-income scholarships.
• Revises L-visa (intracompany transfer) provisions regarding investigating employer fraud; whistleblower protections; and limitations on approval of start-up company petitions.

Participating counts on VoteMatch question 12. Question 12: Pathway to citizenship for illegal aliens Scores: -2=Strongly oppose; -1=Oppose; 0=neutral; 1=Support; 2=Strongly support.
• Topic: Immigration
• Headline: Increase limitations for H-1B, H-2B, and L-visas (Score: 1)
• Headline 2: Increase limitations for H-1B, H-2B, and L-visas (Score: 1)
  
  
• Key for participation codes:
• Sponsorships: p=sponsored; o=co-sponsored; s=signed
• Memberships: c=chair; m=member; e=endorsed; f=profiled; s=scored
• Resolutions: i=introduced; w=wrote; a=adopted
• Cases: w=wrote; j=joined; d=dissented; c=concurred
• Surveys: '+' supports; '-' opposes.