Bill Gates descends on Capitol Hill next week

Date: Sunday, March 04, 2007 2:23 AM

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Next Wednesday Bill Gates will storm back to Washington DC in order to
testify to a Senate committee. Expect him to make the case that the U.S.
cannot be competitive without an increase in the yearly H-1B cap, more
employment based green cards, and easier ways for foreign students to stay
in the U.S. and take jobs. Don't be surprised if he asks for the Skil bill
to be resurrected, and expect to hear the phrase "American competitiveness"
a lot.

Last year Gates went to Washington DC twice but failed to win an H-1B
increase. Hopefully the third time won't be a charm.

Very little has been written in the press about the impending Gates trip to
DC. These short blurbs are about all the information available at the time
of this writing. I don't have any information about who else will be at the
hearing and whether anyone will rebut Gates.

The Programmer's Guild started a blog that will keep track of Gates'
shenanigans at:

http://programmersguild.blogspot.com/

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Bill Gates to address Senate panel

March 2, 2007 12:31 PM PST
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Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates is scheduled to descend on Capitol Hill next
week to pepper a U.S. Senate committee with his suggestions for boosting
American competitiveness.

The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee said Friday that
it has lined up Gates to speak at a public hearing slated for 9:30 a.m. EST
on Wednesday morning.

The Microsoft boss plans to renew his pleas for Congress to raise the cap
on H-1B visas for skilled foreign workers, a company spokeswoman said
Friday. He has previously called for scrapping the limits entirely.

Gates also plans to discuss what he perceives as an inability to keep
talent in the United States to fill high-skilled jobs and the need to
strengthen the math and science curriculum in American schools. He
described those recommendations in a recent Washington Post op-ed piece.

Wednesday's event would mark Gates' third time participating in a
congressional hearing and the first such occasion since 1999, when he spoke
about the growth of the "digital economy" before the Joint Economic
Committee.

His debut occurred in the midst of antitrust tensions in 1998, when Sen.
Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) held hearings on competition in the computer industry.

Posted by Anne Broache

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Wednesday, March 7
9:30 a.m.: Microsoft chairman Bill Gates testifies on strengthening U.S.
competitiveness in the 21st century, at the Senate Health, Education, Labor
and Pensions Committee.

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Bill Gates to testify on competitiveness
Fri Mar 2, 2007 6:44 PM ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates will
testify Wednesday at a congressional hearing on American business
competitiveness, the Senate Health, Education and Labor Committee said on
Friday.

Gates will discuss the importance of immigration reforms to allow more
computer scientists and engineers to work in the United States and the need
for better math and science education in U.S. schools, the committee said
in a statement.

The hearing will begin at 9:30 a.m. ET (1430 GMT) on Wednesday.

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