Warlord
07-23-2013, 04:37 AM
Big Tech pulled out its checkbook to help push an immigration bill closer to the finish line.
Google, Facebook, Oracle and a full slate of companies and executives showered the Senate’s Gang of Eight with a series of donations just before the chamber passed a bill that included the industry’s most prized reforms — including more H-1B visas.
Google and Microsoft donated to Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) while Facebook backed the lawmaker’s leadership PAC called Common Sense Colorado, according to recent federal campaign filings. Meanwhile, top Silicon Valley investors — like Ron Conway and John Doerr — contributed big to Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.).
And tech companies and executives offered similar support to Sens. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), John McCain (R-Ariz.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.). Only Sens. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) and Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), the final members of the group, didn’t draw serious cash from tech company campaign coffers during the immigration battle — but they don’t face reelection until 2018.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/07/big-tech-shelled-out-for-gangs-immigration-push-94574.html#ixzz2ZrcGnDTL
Google, Facebook, Oracle and a full slate of companies and executives showered the Senate’s Gang of Eight with a series of donations just before the chamber passed a bill that included the industry’s most prized reforms — including more H-1B visas.
Google and Microsoft donated to Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) while Facebook backed the lawmaker’s leadership PAC called Common Sense Colorado, according to recent federal campaign filings. Meanwhile, top Silicon Valley investors — like Ron Conway and John Doerr — contributed big to Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.).
And tech companies and executives offered similar support to Sens. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), John McCain (R-Ariz.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.). Only Sens. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) and Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), the final members of the group, didn’t draw serious cash from tech company campaign coffers during the immigration battle — but they don’t face reelection until 2018.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/07/big-tech-shelled-out-for-gangs-immigration-push-94574.html#ixzz2ZrcGnDTL