JACKIE SPEIER COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES wow tieseer Congress of the United States alpcaneni "Eatonarta eae? House of Representatives PEMA INTELGENCE fa id var Washington, DE 20515-0514 ain November 18, 2016 ‘The Honorable Janet Napolitano President, University of California Office of the President 1111 Franklin St. Oakland, CA 94607 Dear President Napolitano: ‘As you know, I have the highest regard for the University of California and regularly work closely with the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) to highlight the institution’s achievements. Twas therefore deeply disappointed to learn that UCSF is planning to outsource a number of IT jobs to a foreign company that likely will replace American workers with foreign nationals, and that the H1-B program may be used to access this foreign labor. Generally speaking, the FII-B program should never be used to cost U.S. citizens their jobs. As this is likely to happen once HCL, the contractor, takes over the duties otherwise performed by UC employees, I respectfully urge you to quickly address this looming issue. There should be only a handful of instances in which US companies cannot find qualified personnel from America’s enormous number of talented citizens. I cannot accept that, in the heart of Silicon Valley, qualified personnel are unavailable to do IT’ jobs, no matter how specialized. In fact, I spoke to a CEO within the last few months. He confirmed that, although recruitment was difficult, his company settled into the Bay Area because its talent pool is vast and deep. Ido not know why UC has decided to take the steps that it is apparently taking. If the UCSF employees need to be retrained to meet new requirements, I hope that the world’s premiere engineering schools will be opened to the ranks of the university’s own employees, so that both the university and the employee can enjoy the fruits of additional training. also have a concern about patient safety and confidentiality once a foreign company is involved in managing UCSF records, Medical privacy laws are, as you know, the strictest types of privacy laws in this nation. If tens of thousands of UCSF patient medical records end up on the dark web version of eBay, what will this do to damage patients and the reputation of UCSF? Is the amount of money supposedly saved by this contract really worth it? ‘Thank you for your consideration of this letter. | urge you, consistent with all applicable laws and regulations, to reconsider this decision. All the best, Jackie Speier pra on eet ach