The Senate voted to restrict federal contractors from using tax dollars to relocate work abroad, in response to a growing backlash over outsourcing. Democrats voted unanimously in support of the ban, which if signed into law, would stop contractors from offshoring in cases where the government privatizes work once done by federal employees, contracts for goods and services, and when state governments contract work using federal funds.
See "Senate Blocks Contractors on Offshore Jobs", The New York Times, March 4, 2004