Political Quotes

“several years ago when we were debating on the floor of this House the North American Free Trade Agreement, we were being told by those who were proponents of that agreement that we would lose some low-skill, low-income jobs in this country, but that as we move from an industrial society more toward an information technology society, those people who lost those jobs would receive training, would receive opportunities in jobs that would pay more money in those information technologies. Well, lo and behold, we have moved to information technologies and now the Information Technology Association of America said we are growing so fast we cannot fill these jobs. And so, under a very little-known program, little known by most legislators and few Americans, it is called the H-1B Program, they now want to import foreign workers into our country to take those jobs. I simply ask, Mr. Speaker, what kind of jobs are we supposed to give those displaced Americans who have lost their jobs?”