A bipartisan duo in the Senate has drafted an unprecedented bill to curb the little-known but huge L-1 visa program, which allows multinationals to import hundreds of thousands of white collar workers while paying them home country wages.

The L-1 reform is combined with a reform of the H-1B visa, which keeps roughly one million foreign white collar workers in the Fortune 500 jobs that are needed by skilled American graduates and innovative professionals.

“Congress created the H-1B and L-1 visa programs as limited pathways for businesses to acquire top talent when it can’t be found at home,” said a Monday statement from Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), the Republican chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. He added:

Over the years, many employers have used them to cut out American workers in favor of cheap foreign labor. Congress must step in again to bring integrity back to these programs and restore dignity for American and foreign workers. There’s bipartisan acknowledgement that these programs ought to be returned to their intended purpose. Our bill would make that shared goal a reality.”

“Major companies are laying off thousands of American workers while filing thousands of visa petitions for foreign workers at depressed wages and poor working conditions,” said a statement from Sen. Richard Durbin (D-IL), the top-ranking Democrat on the judiciary committee. “Congress must step in to protect American workers and fix our broken immigration system.”

The bill sets new wage rules, time limits, and approval procedures for L-1 visa and H-1B workers.

The move is backed by a bipartisan, left-to-right alliance of Sens. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), and Bernie Sanders (I-VT).

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