Democrats tout deal on federal workforce docs

[sabra]

http://www.computerworld.com/managementtopics/outsourcing/story/0,10801,110238,00.html

Democrats tout deal on federal workforce docs
A bipartisan request will be sent to the Commerce Dept.

APRIL 05, 2006 (COMPUTERWORLD) - An agreement was reached today by U.S. House Science Committee leaders seeking release of a federal study that in 2004 assessed the impact of globalization on U.S. workers.

The U.S. Department of Commerce, which spent $335,000 on the study, released a 12-page summary last fall but rebuffed requests by Science Committee Democrats for the full 200-page draft.

Today, Rep. Bart Gordon (D-Tenn.), the Science Committee’s ranking Democrat, and Rep. Sherwood Boehlert (R-N.Y.), the committee chairman, agreed to jointly send a letter to Commerce officials requesting the documents. That makes it “an official administrative request” from the committee, said Alisha Prather, a spokeswoman for the Democrats.

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Democrats argue that the summary, released by the Bush administration 15 months after the workforce globalization report was completed, didn’t accurately reflect the findings of the analysts who worked on it (see ”Government offshore report becomes political hot potato”).

[Robert Oak]

1. the "deal"

we need to monitor this closely and to make sure Republicans "made good" on their promise and also we actually see the original draft and not some "censored" version.

Lots of politics in this one so glad to see this reported and making sure Republicans know "eyes are upon them"...

BTW: please pressure Dems to "just say no" to those labor arbitrage Visas...

you cannot be concerned about outsourcing US jobs if you are not concerned about insourcing cheap labor to take US jobs (H-1B, L-1,
now F-4 potentially and so on).