[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 9261]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              THE ECONOMY

  (Mr. MURPHY of Connecticut asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. MURPHY of Connecticut. Mr. Speaker, in 2007 President Bush 
allowed for 14,000 waivers to our Buy America laws. In 2008, on his way 
out the door, that number became 65,000.
  Let me say that again: in the last year of the Bush administration, 
he quadrupled the number of permits to allow for government contractors 
to outsource jobs overseas.
  You want to know why we lost millions of manufacturing jobs over the 
last decade? There's your answer. We have allowed for American dollars 
to go overseas to be able to grow international workforces at the 
expense of our domestic workforce.
  You want to know why this year we have already created more jobs than 
President Bush did in his 8 years?
  Well, right at the root of it is President Bush's and the 
Republicans' drive to take our tax dollars, send them to multinational 
companies, and allow them to kill American manufacturing jobs. That has 
to stop, and the Democrats are leading the way.

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