On the recordMay 25, 2010
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.
