John Garamendi: “Perhaps it was your testimony at the hearing that the gentleman from…”

On the recordJuly 14, 2015

Perhaps it was your testimony at the hearing that the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Hoyer) put together, and they were talking about job training programs. And I believe one witness, maybe you, said that the largest technical training program in the Nation are the apprenticeship programs that the unions run. So the electricians union, IEBW, their apprenticeship program, the plumbers union and steelworkers and so forth each have an apprenticeship training program. And, when taken together, it is the single largest job training program in the Nation. You said you spent some time at that?

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John Garamendi

Democratic · California

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Jul 14, 2015

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