Amendments

AMENDMENTS -- (House of Representatives - June 17, 2004)

Under clause 8 of rule XVIII, proposed amendments were submitted as follows:
H.R. 4567

Offered By: Mr. Tancredo

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Ms. WATERS. Mr. Speaker, I certainly would like to thank the gentleman from New York (Mr. Rangel) for all the hard work that he has put in on this legislation, and I would like to thank Lou Dobbs at CNN for his constant exposure of the practice of U.S. firms that are outsourcing jobs. These firms are simply exporting American jobs to Third World countries for cheap exploited labor. This bill is a prime example of what Lou Dobbs has been reporting about. This bill is a $140 billion tax boondoggle at a time when U.S. unemployment rates are still too high and at a time when this administration has created historic deficits.

This bill gives $35 billion of the $140 billion tax break that they have created to U.S. firms to invest in jobs overseas, not American jobs, not jobs in your city, not jobs in your hometown, not jobs in your county. The Republicans have become experts at outsourcing jobs. The Republican National Committee and George W. Bush even outsourced their fund-raising solicitation telephone calls to a firm that employs workers in India. This brazen, costly tax giveaway to corporations exporting jobs, 60 percent of whom pay no taxes, is an assault on hardworking Americans who are now collectively paying more taxes than rich corporations. Shame, shame, shame.

The Republicans refused to support targeted U.S. manufacturing credits. These so-called conservative Republicans, who are supposed to be fiscal conservatives, no longer care about the huge United States deficit. They have become the big spenders of the taxpayers' dollars, outsourcing the jobs to foreign countries for cheap labor. These are conservative Republicans piling up this deficit and giving away our American jobs. They no longer care about the joblessness of Americans in their own hometowns.

Shame, shame, shame.

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