[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 37 (Wednesday, March 5, 2008)]
[House]
[Page H1225]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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    CALLING ON CONGRESS TO REMOVE INCENTIVES FOR OUTSOURCING OF JOBS

  (Mr. HALL of New York asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HALL of New York. Mr. Speaker, in the last few months, the 
economy has been battered. Wages have stagnated, and expenses continue 
to rise. Personal debt is skyrocketing, and investment for the future 
has become nonexistent. American families are once again paying the 
price for this difficulty. More and more employers are moving overseas 
to take advantage of cheap labor and complacent regulations in places 
like India.
  Last month, this pernicious trend made its mark on my district when 
Watson Pharmaceuticals, the second largest employer in Putnam County, 
New York, announced that they were closing their facility and moving 
all their jobs to India.
  The company has praised its workers. The CEO said there was nothing 
the workers could have done differently or better to save their jobs. 
But that does them no good. The pull of profits from outsourcing was 
just too much to ignore for another American manufacturer.
  There is something very wrong when U.S. companies are only too happy 
to pick up and move overseas, abandoning their employees and the county 
and the country that has supported them for years. I hope this Congress 
acts swiftly to remove incentives for this kind of behavior and that 
CEOs of these corporations will show some patriotism and loyalty to our 
communities.

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