Washington, June 4 -- Representative Chip Roy issued the following press release:
Today, Congressman Chip Roy (TX-21) introduced the American White-Collar Worker Jobs Act (https://roy.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/roy-evo.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/rep-roy-s-american-white-collar-worker-jobs-act.pdf) of 2026, legislation which would reform the H-1B visa program by replacing the absurd lottery system with a wage-based selection process, requiring employers to demonstrate good-faith efforts to hire American workers first, and preventing companies that have recently conducted layoffs from hiring H-1B workers.
The bill also ends the use of H-1B visas as a pathway to permanent residency and eliminates the Optional Practical Training (O...