SKIL Act 2007 addresses the Green card Backlog Issues

SKIL Act stands for Securing Knowledge, Innovation and Leadership Act.

On April 10, 2007, Senator Cornyn, a republican from Texas, introduced the Securing Knowledge, Innovation and Leadership (SKIL) Act of 2007.
In his opening remarks, Senator Cornyn emphasized the importance of retaining U.S. competitiveness when "everyone has to do their part to keep our country's economy strong and viable." Senator Cornyn also referred to the congressional testimony of Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates. In his testimony, Mr. Gates proposed an increase, and even elimination, of the H1B annual quotas in order to boost the nation's competitiveness in a global economy.

The SKIL Act of 2007 does not purport to replace or eliminate the need for legislation on Comprehensive Immigration Reform. Instead, it provides for an emergent measure to fix the problem revealed by the current H1B cap crisis. Among other things, the bill provides for a flexible calculation of H1B visa numbers per year, which would depend on then-current demand. It also provides for a mechanism to retain foreign workers educated in the United States, to reduce immigrant visa backlogs, and to reform the student visa system to facilitate growth of U.S. business and economy.

I have only included text related to the green card backlog issues.
You can read the original article at http://www.murthy.com/news/n_h1eblm.html that also talks about the The High Tech Worker Relief Act.

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