I have long been a champion of expanding Pell Grant to include high quality short-term education and training programs.

I do believe the next expansion and flexibility of Pell should be for high quality, short-term education, and training programs.

I think to the extent that WIOA can be leveraged to create more of those paid work opportunities for young people...

Our community colleges are often really flexible.

I really celebrate work that we've done in the last couple years to do an Infrastructure bill.

Astonishing. I'm delighted that we're talking about things related to our deficit. We should have been doing this for a long time and I appreciate the fact that we are.

If we don't like the taxes companies are paying, then let's be honest about it and change the federal law.

I have introduced a piece of legislation which is known as the One Door to Work Act, which would allow as many as five other states to be able to also do what Utah does.

I think there's an opportunity here to redefine what many of us think about community colleges.

We should support community colleges in WIOA reauthorization by one codifying the Strengthening Community Colleges grants program.

Digital Skills Building is necessary in today's labor market to keep up with technological advancements.

I've heard from some stakeholders who say WIOA reporting requirements are overly burdensome.

As technology moves at such a rapid pace, people are going to also need to know how, along with their employers, to keep learning new skills.

I think it's really important that we use those metrics that look at earnings and employment.

I look forward to continuing to collaborate with my colleagues on this important effort.

Thank you, Chair Sanders. And thanks to all of you for being here. It's a very interesting and important and timely conversation.

I would encourage you to think about workforce Pell as not only being just for adults without an education, but imagine the person with a baccalaureate degree who was displaced as a result of AI.

Given the relatively higher rates of unemployment and poverty among Native Americans, this significant decline in funding makes it more difficult to provide adequate employment and training services to Native communities.