S. 1083: | Securing Knowledge, Innovation, and Leadership Act of 2007 |
110th Congress 2007-2008 |
A bill to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to increase competitiveness in the United States, and for other purposes.
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Full Text | Status: |  | Introduced | Apr 10, 2007 | | Referred to Committee | View Committee Assignments |  | Reported by Committee | (did not occur) | | Senate Vote | (did not occur) | | House Vote | (did not occur) | | Signed by President | (did not occur) |
This bill never became law.
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| Last Action: | Apr 10, 2007:
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. | Other Titles: | -- SKIL Act of 2007 | Related: | See the Related Legislation page for other bills related to this one and a list of subject terms
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Sources of Influence
MAPLight.org reports that the following organizations
have taken a stance on this bill:
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Council of Graduate Schools American Immigration Lawyers Association Analog Devices Association of American Universities Broadcom Business Roundtable Cisco Systems Coca-Cola Company eBay, Inc. Electronic Industries Alliance Emulex Exxon Mobil Corporation Genentech Google Hewlett Packard IBM Corporation Intel Corporation Kodak McGraw-Hill Companies Microsoft Motorola NAFSA: Association of International Educators National Association of Manufacturers National Semiconductor Corporation NetFlix Oracle PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Qualcomm Incorporated Red Hat Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International Society for Human Resource Management TechNet Texas Instruments U.S. Chamber of Commerce Volvo Group North America Yahoo Incorporated Altria Group | NumbersUSA |
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