May 6 -- Rep. Kanjorski (D-PA) addressed the issue of outsourcing and its effects on the domestic job markets on the House floor. Of the 2.6 million jobs lost since President Bush came to power, Rep. Kanjorski said, Pennsylvania has be "one of the hardest hit" losing 135,000 manufacturing jobs in the last three years.

"This destructive trend has also begun to expand into other sectors of our economy as companies seeking to cut costs have started shifting engineering, technology, and other service-related jobs to places such as China, India, and the Philippines," Rep. Kanjorski said. He said

his constituents were increasingly troubled that American employers were importing foreign workers.

He complained that the failure to enforce immigration policies was one of the reasons millions of illegal immigrants were living in the country. "While I support keeping an appropriate level of legal immigration, we must put an immediate halt to our tacit approval of those who flaunt our laws and come here illegally," he said.

"We must also ensure that a sufficient number of temporary work visas are available in selected areas, such as nursing, agriculture, and tourism, but only where an adequate supply of domestic workers is not available. Finally, we must ensure that current American workers are not losing their jobs or being forced to survive on depressed wages because we are voluntarily importing far more foreign workers than we need through legal and illegal immigration," he said.