High-tech companies and others clamoring for additional H-1B visas to hire foreigners would be <A HREF="http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-6172981.html?tag=nl.e622">forced to give priority to American job seekers</A> under a new U.S. Senate proposal.

Just before Congress departed for its spring recess at the end of last week, Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) introduced a bill--which appears to be the first of its kind in the Senate--designed to curb abuse of the controversial worker visa system.