Subject: HQ NR #7058: Update Information on Lobbying Simpson Bill

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Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 20:12:40 -0500

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            Update Information on Lobbying Simpson Bill

1. Simpson bill S 1394  is being marked-up by Senate Judiciary Sub-
committee today and tomorrow.  The IFCSS Headquarters made numerous
contacts with Senators' offices. Senator Kennedy basically  opposes
this bill, and his aides felt "strange" why his office kept getting
so many fax messages from members of our community;  Senator Feins-
tein will proposes some amendments to this bill,  trying  to remove
the harshest part of it;  Simpson's office just changed some stand-
points on several provisions of the bill in the past week, and pro-
mised to consider the overwhelming responses from industry and edu-
cational societies. The IFCSS is keeping an eye on the  outcome  of
the mark-up, and will brief CSS community very soon;

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2. The IFCSS HQ has made huge effort in the past week to reach bus-
iness leaders, coporations, and  officials  of  higher  educations. 
Several hundreds of mails have been  sent out  nationwide,  besides
phone calls and fax transmission.   The national campaign to influ-
ence the business leaders obviously works. As reported in   Today's
Washington Post,     Microsoft Corp. Chairman  Bill Gates yesterday
strongly critized Simpson Bill S 1394, and called this legislation
"an absolute disaster." Gates said: "If you want to prevent  compa-
nies like ours from doing work in the United States,      this is a 
masterpiece."      Gates also pointed out that the new quotas (from 
140,000 reduced to 90,000) are too low, and singled out a provision 
in the Simpson bill that would require foreign   students   to work
overseas for several years before becoming eligible for work  visas 
in the United States. 

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3. The IFCSS encouraged all Chinese students and scholars  to  for-
ward relevant postings or messages to their university President or
Chancellors on campuses.       Top university officials usually are
respected persons in the state,   and have fairly good relationship
with Congress members from this state. This strategy works  on many 
occasions.   One student at University of Rhode Island wrote to the
president and forwarded to him the open letter from the IFCSS. This
student sent the HQ office the reply from the president of U. R.I.
two days ago:

"Thank you for this information.   I've talked to Sen. Chaffee  and 
have left  a message for Sen. Pell.    I believe that this will get 
resolved in the conferene committee,    as did the bill which would 
have restricted Pell  grants from legal immigrants.   We'll keep an 
eye on it.

Robert L. Carothers, President
The University of Rhode Island
Kingston, Rhode Island 02881
[email-masked]"

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4. The IFCSS HQ staff called Simpson's office this afternoon  seve-
ral times, questioning Simpson's stand on the provision that gradu-
ates must leave the US for two years".     Simpson's aide said that
Simpson told a reporter yesterday that he noticed the pressure from
business groups in recent weeks  persuaded him to drop the require-
ment.   He definitely would discuss with other legislators and take
some serious consideration about it.   We will know the progress of
it very soon.

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5. Among hundreds of mails processed in the   HQ in  the past days, 
half of them headed for university officials,    of whom mostly are 
President and Chancellors.    We presented the mailing list we used
in the past several days in the following,      to see whether some 
schools or officials are missed or wrongly addressed.  Please   let 
the HQ know it, so we can send a second one.  The president,  Chan-
cellors or other top officials we contacted are:

Donald Behrend,        University of Alaska--Anchorage,
William Harris,        Alabama State University, Montgomery, 
William V. Muse,       Auburn University--Maim campus, 
Claude Bennett,        University of Alabama
Charles E.  Hathaway,  University of Arkansas
Lattie F. Coor,        Arizona State University
Manuel Pacheco,        University of Arizona
Thomas E. Evenhart     California Institute of Technology
Director,              Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Director Lerner,       Scripps Research Institute
Robert C. Corrigan     San Francisco State University
Gerhard Casper         Stanford University
Direcotr,              Stanford University Medical Center
Chang-Lin Tien         University of California--Berkeley
Larry N. Vanderhoel    University of California--Davis
Harold H. Haak         University of California--Fresno
Laurel L. Wikening     University of California--Irvine
Charles E. Young       University of California--Los Angeles
Raymond L. Orbach      University of California--Riverside
Richard C. Atkinson    University of California--San Diego
Joseph B. Martin       University of California--San Francisco
Henry Yang             University of California--Santa Barbara
Karl Pister            University of California--Santa Cruz
Author Hughes          University of San Diego
John P. Schlegel       University of San Francisco
Steven B. Sample       University of Southern California
Albert C. Yates        Colorado State University
John Buechner          University of Colorado--Denver
Harry J. Hartley       University of Connecticut
James L. Baird         University of Connecticut--Avery Point
Karen Arms             University of Connecticut--Stamford
Cleveland Donald, Jr.  University of Connecticut--Waterbury
Richard C. Levin       Yale University
Bernjiamin Ladner      American University
President              Brookings Institution
Brother Patrick Ellis  Catholic University of America
Stephen Tracktenberg   George Washington University
Leo J. O'Donovan       Georgetown University
Joyce A. Ladner        Howard University
Tilden J. LeMelle      University of the District of Columbia
President              Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
William B. Delauder    Delaware State College
David P. Roselle       University of Delaware
Modesto A. Madigue     Florida Keys Community College
Talbot D'Alemberte     Florida State University
John  V. Lombardi      University of North Florida
William M. Chase       Emory University
Charles B. Knapp       University of Georgia
Kenneth P. Mortimer    University of Hawaii
President              University of Iowa
Elizabeth Zinser       Universityof Idaho
John Brazil            Bradley Unibersity
Dolores E. Cross       Chicago State University
Lewis Collens          Illinois Institute of Technology
John J. Piderit        Loyola University Chicago
Henry S. Blenen        Northwestern University
Hugo Sonnenschein      University of Chicago
Stanley O. Ikenberry   University of Illinois
James J. Stukel        University of Illinois--Chicago
Michael Aiken          University of Illinois--Urbana--Champaign
J. Richard Chase       Wheaton College
John E. Worthen        Ball State University
Donald Andorger        Indiana Institute of Technology
John W. Moore          Indiana State University
Kenneth R.Gros Louis   Indiana University--Bloomington
Steven C. Beering      Purdue University
Gene A. Budig          University of Kansas Medical Center
Mary L. Smith          Kentucky State University
Charles Wethington, Jr.University of Kentucky
President              University of Louisville
President              Loyola University--New Orleans
Jerome G. Greene, Jr.  Southeastern Louisiana University
Eamon M. Kelly         Tulane University
Ray P. Authement       University of Southwestern Louisiana
Tom Gerety             Amherst College
John R. Silber         Boston University
Juhuda Reinbharz       Brandeis University
Harcvey V. Fineberg    Harvard School of Public Health
Neil L. Rudenstine     Harvard University
Charles M. Vest        Massachusetts Institute of Technology
John A. Curry          Northeastern University
John Dibiaggio         Tufts University
David Scott            University of Massachusetts--Amherst
Sherry H. Penny        University of Massachusetts--Boston
Peter H. Cressy        University of Massachusetts--Dartmouth
Diana Chapman Walsh    Wellesley College
William C. Richardson  Johns Hopkins University
John W. Ryan           University of Maryland--Baltimore
William P. Hytche      University of Maryland--Eastern Shore
T. Benjiamin Massey    University of Maryland--University College
Theodora J. Kalikow    University of Maine--Farmington
Leonard Plachta        Central Michigan University
M. Peter McPherson     Michigan State University
James J. Duderstadt    University of Michigan--Ann Arbor
David Adamany          Wayne State University
Richard M.Weinshilbaum Mayo Medical School
Nils Hasselmo          University of Minnesota--Twin Cities
Charles A. Kiesler     University of Missouri--Columbia
Eleanor Schwartz       University of Missouri--Kansas City
John T. Park           University of Missouri--St. Louis
President              Washington University--St.Louis
R. Gerald Turner       University of Mississippi
George Dennison        University of Montana
Nanerl Keohane         Duke University
Larry K. Monteith      North Carolina State University`
Paul Hardin            University of North Caroliana--Chapel Hill
Kendall Baker          University of North Dakota
Graham Spanier         University of Nebraska--Lincoln
Del Weber              University of Nebraska--Omaha
James O. Freedman      Dartmouth College
Thomas P. Fairchild    University of New Hampshire
Saul K. Fenster        New Jersey Institute of Technology
Harold T. Shapiro      Princeton University
Francis L. Lawrence    Rutgers University--New Brunswick
Norman Samuels         Rutgers University--Newark
Stanley S. Bergen Jr.  University of Medicine and Dentistry of NJ
President              Los Alamos Scientific Laboratories
Richard Peck           University of New Mexico
Kenny Quinn            University of Nevada--Las Vegas 
Joseph Crowley         University of Nevada--Reno
Vernon E. Lattin       CUNY--Brooklyn College
Yolanda T. Moses       CUNY--City College
Blanche D. Blank       CUNY--Hunter College
Nathan Kase            CUNY--Mount Sinai School of Medicine
George E. Rupp         Columbia University
Hunter Rowlings        Cornell University
Robert Michels         Cornell University Medical College
Joseph A. O'Hare, S.J. Fordham University
John J. Connolly       New York Medical College
L.J. Oliva             New York University
President              Roswell Park Memorial Institute
H.Patrick Swygert      SUNY--Albany
Lois B. DeFleur        SUNY--BIingghamton
William R. Greiner     SUNY--Buffalo
Shirley Strum Kenny    SUNY--Stony Brook
Agnar Pytte            Case Western Reserve University
Paul G. Risser         Miami University--Hamilton
E. Gordon Gee          Ohio State University--Main Campus
Peggy G. Elliott       University of Akron--Main Campus
Joseph A. Steger       University of Cincinnati--Main Campus
J. R. Morris           University of Oklahoma
John V. Byrne          Oregon State University
Robert Mehrabian       Carnegie--Mellon University
Richard D. Resigning   Drexel University
Judith S. Roden        University of Pennsylvania
J. Dennis O'Connor     University of Pittsburgh
Vartan Gregorian       Brown University
Robert L. Carothers    University of Rhode Island
John M. Palms          University of South Carolina--Main Campus
William T. Snyder      University of Tennessee--Knoxville
William R. Rice        University of Tennessee--Memphis
Joe B. Wyatt           Vanderbilt University
William T. Butler      Baylor College of Medicine
Ray M. Bowen           Texas A&M University
Herbert H. Richardson  Texas A&M University System
Ryan C. Amacher        University of Texas--Arlington
Robert M. Berdahl      University of Texas--Austin
Robert M. Berdahl      University of Texas--Dallas
Samuel A. Kirkpatrick  University of Texas--San Antonio
C. Kern Wildenthal     University of Texas S.W. Medical Ct. at Dallas
Rex E. Lee             Brigham Young University
Arthur K. Smith        University of Utah
John T. Casteen        University of Virginia
President              University of Washington
David Ward             University of Wisconsin--Madison
John H. Schroeder, Jr. University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee
Terry P. Roark         University of Wyoming