February 16, 2009

Because the surest way to revive the banks is to keep them from hiring their choice of specialized talent from around the world -- or something like that -- the stimulus bill will make it a lot harder for recipients of bailout money to use the H1-B visa program, a key pathway by which American firms avail themselves of highly trained technical staff. Sens. Charles Grassley (R-Ia.) and Bernard Sanders (I-Vt.) deserve the blame.