OVERNIGHT TECH: Obama meets with business execs in push for immigration

The meeting’s attendees included AOL co-founder Steve Case, who now heads up the investment firm Revolution; Karen Lozano, founder and chief technology officer of FiberRio Technology Group; and Alex Torrenegra, CEO of startups VoiceBunny and Voice123. Dilawar Syed, CEO of social products company Yonja Media Group and a member of the president’s advisory commission on Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders, also participated.

When making the case for passing the Senate bill, the president cited the Congressional Budget Office’s report that estimated the measure would reduce deficits over 10 years and increase revenue by raising the number of people paying taxes. He also highlighted the need for the U.S. to help keep highly skilled foreign graduates in the country.

{mosads}”We have a system in which we bring outstanding young people from all across the world to educate them here, and unfortunately, too often, we send them right back so that they can start companies or help to grow companies somewhere else instead of here,” Obama said.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) plans to hold a final vote on the bill on Thursday.

Tech companies have ramped up their lobbying efforts to rally support for the Senate immigration bill over the past week.

The Information Technology Industry Council, which represents tech companies like Google and Intel, sent a letter to senators on Friday saying it could consider scoring votes in favor of the final passage of the bill. The group said it might also score votes for opposing a handful of labor-backed amendments from Sens. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).

T-Mobile offers auction proposal: T-Mobile offered a proposal on Monday for the structure of the Federal Communications Commission’s spectrum auction.

Under T-Mobile’s plan, the FCC would cap the amount of spectrum that AT&T and Verizon could buy as long as the auction hits a set revenue target. If the caps prevent the government from meeting the revenue target, the limit would be gradually rolled back.

The plan is in line with the Justice Department’s recommendation that the FCC prevent AT&T and Verizon from buying up too much spectrum, but also addresses concerns that caps could limit the government’s revenue.

“By relying on actual bids rather than predictions of bidder behavior, the Dynamic Market Rule helps remove any risk that revenue targets for clearing broadcasters and funding the FirstNet public safety network will not be met,” T-Mobile wrote in a filing.

Zuckerberg group hires exec director: FWD.us, the pro-immigration advocacy group founded by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, has hired Todd Schulte as its executive director.

Schulte was the chief of staff for Priorities USA, a pro-Obama super-PAC. He was the chief of staff to former Rep. Scott Murphy (D-N.Y.) and has also worked at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

Verizon Wireless CEO to be named chairman of CTIA: Verizon Wireless CEO Dan Mead has been tapped to be the next chairman of CTIA, stepping into the position formerly held by Mary Dillon, according to FierceWireless. Dillon, who served as CEO of U.S. Cellular, will be the next CEO of Ulta Salon Cosmetics & Fragrance.  

ON TAP

Intel and the Bipartisan Policy Center are jointly hosting a forum on Tuesday that will examine how big data can be used to spark innovation in the healthcare industry. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) will give a keynote, and Eric Fishman, general manager of heath strategy and solutions at Intel, will participate in a panel following the address.

The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) will host a discussion on Data Surveillance, PRISM and the National Security Agency on Tuesday afternoon. CBS News’s “Face the Nation” host Bob Schieffer will moderate the panel, which will feature David Sanger, chief Washington correspondent at The New York Times; Barton Gellman, a contributor to The Washington Post and Time Magazine; and James Lewis, director of the technology and public policy program at CSIS. 

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT:

Obama picks former Biden aide McSweeny for FTC: President Obama nominated Terrell McSweeny, a former aide to Vice President Biden, to serve on the Federal Trade Commission on Monday.

McSweeny, who currently serves as chief competition counsel for the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division, would take one of the three seats reserved for Democrats on the five-member commission. The agency handles competition and consumer protection issues.

Snapchat faces regulatory constraints with app for kids: Snapchat, a photo-sharing app, announced on Monday that it will offer a new service for children younger than 13 years of age.

But the new app, called “SnapKidz,” will have limited functionality at least in part because of federal regulations.

Leahy offers bill to sunset FISA provisions: Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and a bipartisan group of senators offered legislation Monday to sunset some surveillance programs more than two years early to allow for proper congressional oversight.

Leahy said Congress needs to rein in the surveillance programs at the National Security Agency after leaker Edward Snowden revealed it is collecting billions of phone and Internet records from millions of Americans who are not connected to terrorist investigations.

Report: Snowden took NSA job to gain access to classified programs: Former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden has admitted the only reason he took a job at the National Security Agency was to gain access to the agency’s most sensitive programs.

Snowden said he sought out the NSA contractor position with the goal of exposing the agency’s domestic intelligence operations. He made the comments in an interview with the South China Morning Post published Monday.

FTC reviews Google’s purchase of Waze: The Federal Trade Commission has questioned Google over its purchase of mapping app Waze, the company confirmed on Monday.

Google did not provide details about the nature of the probe, and the FTC declined to comment. 

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— This post was updated at 7:29 p.m. to add new information about the White House meeting.