2000: Voted for a bill removing a cap on the number of foreign worker visas.
Rep. Hutchinson voted as part of the House Judiciary Committee for H.R.4227 in 2000. This legislation would have removed the cap on the number of H-1B visas available for three years PROVIDED THAT the worker protections from the 1998 H-1B bill be implemented. Although the bill would allow an unlimited number of H-1B visa holders into the country, thus increasing overall numbers, this legislation does contain important worker protections and fraud prevention measures. H.R.4227, sponsored by Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), passed the committee 18-11.

1998: Voted against a bill to double H-1B foreign high-tech workers (Smith).
Rep. Hutchinson opposed passage of H.R.3736, which ultimately increased by nearly 150,000 the number of foreign workers that high-tech American companies could hire over the next three years. The primary sponsor was Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas).

1998: Voted against an amendment stripping protections from American workers.
Rep. Hutchinson voted against the Rogan amendment to H.R.3736 (Smith), which sought to strip several worker protections from the bill. The amendment, sponsored by Rep. Jim Rogan failed in committee, but the protections were ultimately stripped from the final bill.

2000: Signed a letter opposing a massive illegal alien amnesty. Representative Hutchinson, with 52 other Republican Representatives, signed a letter to Speaker of the House, Rep. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.), expressing opposition to an effort to attach an illegal-alien amnesty to an end-of-session appropriations bill.

1997-1998: Voted in favor of a motion to strip an amnesty from a bill.
Rep. Hutchinson voted in favor of the Rohrabacher Motion to H.R. 2267 to kill the Section 245(i) amnesty that allowed certain illegal aliens to pay a fee and avoid a 1996 laws provision that punishes illegal aliens by barring them for 10 years from entering the U.S. on a legal visa as a student, tourist, worker or immigrant. The Rohrabacher Motion, sponsored by Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.), failed by a vote of 153-268.

1999-2000: Voted for the Traficant Amendment to authorize the use of the military on the border.
Rep. Hutchinson voted to authorize the Secretary of Defense, under certain circumstances, to assign members of the military to assit the Border Patrol in their efforts. The Traficant Amendment to H.R. 1401, sponsored by Rep. James Traficant (D-Ohio), passed by a vote of 242-181.