[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 11391]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      OPPOSING OUTSOURCING OF JOBS

  (Ms. WOOLSEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks and include therein 
extraneous material.)
  Ms. WOOLSEY. Mr. Speaker, my constituents write each week telling me 
about jobs that are being outsourced, asking me what is Congress doing 
about it. They are amazed and they are outraged that our President can 
support this policy, when over 1 million Californians are out of work.
  I understand their concerns, especially when the Bush administration 
recently awarded a massive $10 billion government contract to 
Accenture, a company incorporated in Bermuda, when two American-based 
companies actually bid for the contract. They also know that the 
President used outsourced workers in India to make phone calls for his 
Presidential campaign. All of this, Mr. Speaker, when 8.4 million 
people are out of work nationwide.
  Outsourcing is bad economic policy, and I urge the House leadership 
to address this issue immediately.

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