Congress will fund a definitive study on offshore outsourcing.

The House of Representatives has approved $2 million in funding to study the effect of outsourcing on U.S. workers and the economy. The House-Justice-State Appropriations bill approved by the full House directs the National Academy of Public Administration to conduct the study.

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Wolf says he is concerned about the loss of service sector jobs to India and manufacturing jobs to China. "These have been good paying jobs that are not easy to replace," he says. "There is such a wide-ranging difference of opinion on this issue, depending on whether the comments are coming from businesses which are sending jobs overseas, or from workers whose jobs are being shipped overseas. We need to get an independent set of eyes to look at the issue."