In a rare display of cross-partisan consensus, Bill Gates joined Warren Buffett and Republican mega-donor Sheldon Adelson in a New York Times op-ed pressuring Congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform. Writing shortly after House Republicans refused to act on the Senate's bipartisan S.744 bill (which had passed 68–32), the three argued that it 'borders on insanity to train intelligent and motivated people in our universities — often subsidising their education — and then to deport them when they graduate.' The op-ed covered both skilled immigration reform and a path to citizenship for undocumented long-term residents, calling the failure to legislate 'a national disgrace.'