CLEVELAND — Newly introduced House legislation attempts to prevent tech companies from replacing high-skilled American workers with foreign-born employees who will work for less money, a bipartisan effort that complements the complaints about visa program abuse that Donald Trump made a regular feature of his presidential campaign.

Tech companies attracted widespread criticism in the spring following reports that they are abusing the H-1B visa program, which is designed to allow high-skilled foreign workers to come to the United States if there is a labor shortage in the country. Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., convened a hearing for a former Disney employee who was laid off and then was required to train his foreign successor.