H.R.3687 - To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to eliminate the diversity immigrant program and to re-allocate those visas to certain employment-based immigrants who obtain an advanced degree in the United States.

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  • Official: To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to eliminate the diversity immigrant program and to re-allocate those visas to certain employment-based immigrants who obtain an advanced degree in the United States. as introduced.

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10/1/2009--Introduced.Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to eliminate the diversity immigrant program and provide an equal number of annual immigrant visas (55,000) to certain employment-based aliens who obtain an advanced degree in the United States.

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12/27/10
2003: Yet Another Year in Review

December. The Republican Catechism; Miserable Failure Project: Fallout; Religion vs. Science; GI Joke, Part II; Class Warfare! You Might Be A Republican If... HR 3687; Sauron: Offer and Acceptance.

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Congress This Week Oct 2, 2009

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06/21/10
Harry Reid: Paying income tax in America is Voluntary - Scary Reid

The provision in HR 3687 that FDR resisted was a rider, HR 2570, the Current Payment Act of 1943 which was referred to by Congress as the “pay-as-you-go” concept creating the “withholding system” every taxpayer is familiar with. ...

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