Ro Khanna
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I mean, and anyone in Silicon Valley, I mean, you guys know this.
I mean, it's been abused.
It's
have people coming in.
Yeah, I agree.
And as you know, some of the outsourcing consulting companies, I don't want to go through all the names, but you know what they are, Tidal Consulting or Cognizant or others, they've gamed the system and they get a bulk of those H1Bs.
And that needs to stop and there needs to be actual talent.
But I want to make a point.
I was just in China.
We had gone to a bipartisan delegation there.
One third of the AI talent is in China, according to a lot of the reports.
And so
I want some of those folks to come to the United States so we can stay ahead of AI.
So there are legitimate uses of the H-1B program.
And what we need to do is fix the program so you can have the legitimate talent still coming to Silicon Valley and around the nation.
I think there needs to be an H-1B program.
I don't think the national waiver and the other programs are enough.
A lot of times, you know, look how Sundar Pichai came or Satya came, who are now leading Google and Microsoft.
They came, they studied here, and then they got an H-1B.
But I would also...