WIOA funds programs assisting Americans in obtaining crucial job skills as well as to connect job seekers with employment activities.

There's about 8 million job openings in the United States and the unemployment rate is low, but so is the workforce participation.

This flexible model, by the way, has been very successful in Senator Romney's home State of Utah.

We need to increase transparency and accountability of WIOA programs for improving employment outcomes.

It is necessary, right? Like I said, there are--you know, I know in Benin and Togo, it has started already to do that.

this was an important step for the House to take.

We did our job on the contempt and I think it sends an important message. We're defending Article One and our authority for oversight and we have to do that.

Every year since 1996, Congress has failed to pass our annual spending bills on time. Every year since 1996, despite work still left to be done, August rolls around and Congress goes home, kicking the can down the road and leaving funding…

Oh, I'm so glad you brought up the January 6th Committee. We'll be talking a lot more about that in the coming weeks. There's been a lot of investigation about that committee. I don't think it was properly constituted.

I appreciate their work and look forward to hearing more about their bills today.

Current Federal workforce funding prioritizes bloating government bureaucracy less than in investing in worker skill.

We must, one, direct more funding to training and allow states to innovate to best serve workers and employers.

Yes. Mitt Romney thinks so too, but, that's Romney.

We have the opportunity now to increase options for training and skills development so workers can properly enter, reenter, and remain in an ever-changing workforce.

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