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If we really want to lift the barriers that stifle Americans trying to enter and thrive in the workplace, we need to propose remedies that reduce the skills gap and prepare individuals to fill the plethora of available high-quality jobs in…
Today Democrats see barriers as opportunities to increase Federal power. Republicans see barriers as opportunities to enable individual empowerment.
The American dream was founded on the premise that individuals are free and capable of improving their lives.
It seems our colleagues on the other side have done their level best to have a hearing about employment without addressing the role of education.
This hearing is supposedly about barriers to employment, not opportunities for Federal spending, Federal involvement, and Federal power.
We were told this morning by the leading Republican in the House that the first bill was introduced by a Republican from California back in the 1800s. So we are very proud of our leadership in this effort.
You're willing to work with GAO to implement a strategy?
I find that less than, I guess you might say, the best strategy.
I don't know that this consolidation will actually change some of that frustration.
Isn't that what happens, is they provide a similar or relatively similar service, and yet there's not the efficiency of one?
I mean, there are areas where we're doing exactly the same thing, and yet you have different agencies that would both say they can do it better.
This also, reorganization, shouldn't be seen as a way to downsize the Federal employee footprint.
It's important that we are effective and efficient.
I don't think we've ever done one, in the Federal Government, just to be blunt.
I do not believe that we need to put everything in DOD.
I can't tell you how important it is from the standpoint of my constituents back home.