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While part of the hearing focused on manufacturing and U.S. government procurement, much of the debate centered on moving IT jobs offshore. Harris Miller, president of the Information Technology Association of America, said even in the most dire predictions of jobs lost through 'offshoring,' only about 500,000 U.S. IT jobs would move offshore by 2015, representing about 5 percent of the U.S. IT workforce. The issue of offshoring IT jobs has been over-hyped in the media and Congress, Miller said.