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H-1B Legislation - Your Help
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- This is to let you know that the Region 3 Newsletter, now in
electronic form on the web, is available for your reading pleasure
at https://ewh.ieee.org/reg/3/enewsletter/vol15no2/ . This is a
special edition on the electronic conferencing initiatives that
your fellow volunteers have pioneered in our region. It also
includes a list of the goals and objectives that all entities
(committees, sections, etc) are responsible for in preparation for
this Fall's Region 3 Executive Committee (ExCom) meetings.
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- As I state in the Director's Report, This special electronic
issue of our Region 3 Newsletter is another attempt to better
communicate and hopefully give you some tools that will allow you
to do a better job of conducting the business of IEEE. Our Region
is leading many within IEEE to consider using e-conferencing as an
alternate to face-to-face meetings and a better way to work
together to resolve the many issues that we are faced with at all
levels of this organization.
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- Some other articles in this newsletter:
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- Bob Duggan, Strategic Planning Committee Chair reviews the
Region 3 Goals & Objectives for 2000-1 and how they map onto
the Region 3 Committee structure.
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- Bill Ratcliff on Region 3 E-Conferencing writes:
- "For nearly 2 years now the seeds of electronic conferencing
to support distributed / collaborative work efforts have been
developing and growing into a new way of working together here in
Region 3. Find out what is growing and how to be a part of
it."
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- Charles Lord, Region 3 EConferencing Trainer writes:
- "The principles of electronic conferencing are very simple and
surprisingly low-tech. As Bill Ratcliff, the Chair of this
project, likes to say, "It ain't the technology - it's the
method." ... If you can connect to the internet well enough to
send and receive email and browse web pages, you can probably do
everything I am going to describe here."
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- Thanks again for your hard work for the membership of IEEE! I
look forward to "seeing" you on the internet as we lead the IEEE
into the 21st century. All Aboard!
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- Dick
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- Richard L. Riddle
- Region 3 Director 2000-1
- r.riddle@ieee.org
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- H-1B Legislation -
Your Help is Needed
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- Today is a time for action! Please call or fax your two
senators and inform
- them of your views on the H-1B issue. You can visit the
IEEE-USA web site
- for more complete details.
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- 1. H-1B moving through Senate.
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- Today, Senators will continue their discussions about the
doubling of the
- H-1B foreign worker bill. Yesterday, procedural votes opened
the way for an
- expected vote and passage perhaps today.
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- This bill would add 360,000 more foreign workers over the next
three years.
- But there are several more places where this bill can be
modified before
- Congress adjourns.
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- 2. Amnesty
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- Today on the Senate floor, the Senate will discuss the case
for an amnesty
- for 1.5 million illegal aliens.
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- 3. House Response
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- All is quiet over in the House, where the leaders are waiting
for the Senate
- to tip its hand.
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- 4. Phoning
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- The most important thing you can do right now is to call the
offices of your
- Senators and tell them your views.
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- Call your Senators through the switchboard at:
- 202-224-3121
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10/01/2000