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Republicans Push for More Green Cards for Scientists, Engineers

Republican Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas who sponsored the bill, said the U.S. can spur economic growth by allowing employers to more easily hire foreign graduates of the nation’s universities.

“These students have the ability to start a company that creates jobs or come up with an invention that could jump-start a whole new industry,” said Smith.

Lamar Smith, Global Warming Skeptic, Set To Chair House Science Committee

The [ABC, NBC and CBS television] networks have shown a steady pattern of bias on climate change,” Smith said in a statement at the time. “During a six-month period, four out of five network news reports failed to acknowledge any dissenting opinions about global warming, according to a Business and Media Institute study. The networks should tell Americans the truth, rather than hide the facts.”

He also referred to environmentalists and others who warn about the seriousness of the issue as “global warming alarmists.”