U.S. Senator Supports Outsourcing to India

U.S. Senator Supports Outsourcing to India
Leading U.S. Senator Says He Supports Outsourcing of White-Collar Jobs to India
By S. SRINIVASAN Associated Press Writer
The Associated Press

BANGALORE, India Jan 13, 2006 — U.S. Senator Max Baucas, the top Democrat on the powerful Senate Finance Committee, said Friday he supports the outsourcing of white-collar jobs to low-wage countries such as India a position at odds with his party's traditional stance on the issue.

Baucas insisted a majority of fellow Senate Democrats agreed with him, despite the party's longtime opposition to American companies moving jobs overseas.

"Everybody is concerned about job losses and so am I," he told The Associated Press in an interview in Bangalore, his first stop on an five-day tour of India.

"But the world is flat and we must work harder to better retrain our people," rather than resist outsourcing, he said. "Offshoring is a fact of globalization. Opportunities for U.S. companies come from everywhere including India."

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