Breitbart by Neil Munro
House GOP legislators defeated the billionaire-backed EAGLE Act outsourcing bill on Wednesday — but only with the help of a breakaway faction of liberal Democrats who rejected the bill’s preference for Indian visa workers.
The remarkable alliance was created by West Coast business groups who used a population of Indian visa workers to disguise a massive outsourcing change — dubbed “Section 7.”
The section threatened to flood the U.S. labor market with a subservient, no-rights workforce that would displace millions of Americans from white-collar and blue-collar jobs.
The giveaway died without a vote when Democratic leaders withdrew the bill once they recognized they would lose on the House floor.
The lack of a vote obscures the political splits and shifts. But nearly all GOP members — including the eight GOP sponsors of the Fortune 500 giveaway — turned against the bill as GOP leaders Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and GOP Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) declared their opposition and began whipping their members to vote against the bill…
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