Anne Broache reports that Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates urged U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee members to pursue a three-pronged approach to boosting the nation's competitiveness:

1. equip American students, teachers and workers with necessary math and science skills;

2. elevating research spending; and

3. rewriting immigration laws to allow American companies to hire more foreigners.

Gates called for doubling the number of science, technology and math graduates in the United States by 2015.

The full testimony is available in webcast and in transcript for on-demand review.

Thanks, Bill, for your consistent advancing of available incomplete education opportunities.

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