Byron Dorgan: “The central question that is asked by my colleague from Connecticut is this: Should tax dollars be used to send jobs…”

“The central question that is asked by my colleague from Connecticut is this: Should tax dollars be used to send jobs overseas? I am going to have this followed up with another amendment asking, should we provide tax breaks to send jobs overseas? My colleague, Senator Dodd, says--and I agree with him wholeheartedly--we ought not to have the American people pay tax dollars into our Government and then have various functions of Government decide where we are going to do the essential functions that we have to perform and then make a decision: let's do them in Bangladesh; let's do them in Indonesia; let's do them in India. That is not something we want to have happen with the dollars the American taxpayers pay into their Government.”