Contact: Chris McManes IEEE-USA Chair's Offshoring Testimony Before U.S. House Committee To Be Televised on C-SPAN WASHINGTON (20 October 2003) — Dr. Ron Hira, chair of the IEEE-USA Research & Development Policy Committee, delivered testimony Monday before the House Small Business Committee on the offshoring of high-skilled jobs. Natasha Humphries, a former senior software quality assurance engineer from Northern California who lost her job to offshoring in August, also testified. The hearing is slated to air for the first time on C-SPAN tonight. Check www.c-span.org or your local listings for tonight's time and future broadcasts. The hearing can also viewed in its entirety on C-SPAN's online video library. Visit www.c-span.org and click on "House Cmte. Hearing on Movement of U.S. Jobs Overseas" to watch streaming video. Hira's entire written testimony is available at www.ieeeusa.org/forum/POLICY/2003/102003.html. IEEE-USA is an organizational unit of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., created in 1973 to advance the public good, while promoting the careers and public-policy interests of the more than 235,000 electrical, electronics, computer and software engineers who are U.S. members of the IEEE. The IEEE is the world's largest technical professional society. For more information, go to www.ieeeusa.org.
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