[jsfg_cinti] Bills to keep jobs in USA create uproar

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Bills to keep jobs in USA create uproar
By Sue Kirchhoff, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON - Just three years ago, Congress voted to allow more foreign workers 
into the United States. Times have changed.
    
Politicians are proposing tough - opponents say misguided - steps to keep jobs 
at home in the face of rising unemployment, a growing number of white-collar 
jobs being transferred to India and other countries and lingering anger over 
some U.S. allies' opposition to the war in Iraq. 
The House has passed measures to require the Defense and State departments to 
buy a larger share of equipment from U.S. firms. The measure, which has 
provoked a corporate and political uproar, has not been approved by the Senate.
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Politicians are reacting to the loss of 2.6 million manufacturing jobs since 
mid-2000, and studies predict millions of service jobs - call centers, 
engineering, architectural drafting and others - will move abroad in the next 
decade.

Earlier this month, Gartner, a technology research and advising firm, predicted 
the amount of business processing done by workers outside the USA would reach 
$1.8 billion in 2003, a 38% increase from 2002. 
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Rep. Don Manzullo, R-Ill., whose district includes a number of factories, plans 
to offer so-called Buy American amendments to every spending bill that comes 
through Congress this year. 

"You just can't continue to outsource overseas time after time after time, 
dilute the strategic military base and then expect this Congress to sit back 
and see the jobs lost and do nothing," Manzullo says.
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