Bipartisan legislation introduced in the Senate on 29 January includes the largest increase ever to the H-1B program.  The bill, S. 169, would more than triple the size of the H-1B program, while making nominal increases to the EB green card program.  If passed, the bill would be a boon to outsourcing companies while costing American workers tens of thousands of jobs. For details, please read the article by Russ Harrison at IEEE-USA. (Source: IEEE-USA, link)