In the US Congress, two amendments on restricted hiring of foreign workers and at preventing fraud and abuse of H-1B and L1 visa failed to sail through the Senate floor. It was blocked by the Democratic Party.The first of the two bills moved by Senator Chuck Grassley, would have prevented any company engaged in a mass lay-off of American workers from importing cheaper labour from abroad through temporary guest worker programmes. The second would have taken aim at fraud and abuse of the H-1B and L Visa programs, while making sure Americans have the first chance at high-skilled jobs in the United States.