the unemployment rate of President Biden has remained below 4 percent for the longest time in 50 years.

Since President Biden took office more than 12.2 million jobs have been created. This historic, economic progress is indicative of progressional Democrats and the administration's commitment to supporting workers, businesses, and families.

I want to see if you can talk about expanding the Department of Labor force's Workforce Opportunity for Rural Communities initiative.

In the State of Connecticut, we have roughly about 90,000 job openings.

One way Congress could help is for us to pass the Workplace Violence Prevention for Healthcare, H.R. 2663, which has 165 bipartisan cosponsors.

Today's hearing is an opportunity to set the record straight and tell the truth.

The fact that you have stood with workers and workers' families should be something that we all celebrate.

A perfect example of our commitment is when congressional Democrats and President Biden saved the pensions of over 1 million retirees, by saving the multi-employer pension funds.

Using every microeconomic metric, the economy does better when Democrats are in charge.

The way, you know, we clearly realize that we have to sort of, you know, fill those positions, is to close the skills gap.

Let us be honest about where inflation comes through, and there are some great Federal Reserve articles about that.

Later today on April 18, three Australian submariners are slated to graduate from the Naval Submarine Base New London in Groton. They are the first three submariners from Australia under the AUKUS security agreement who are gaining…

Again, your experience on the ground I think is just really incredibly important right now.

I was around back in 2010 when we passed the post-911 GI Bill, which again was probably one of the most popular important things that we did.

The number of applications coming in this year actually went up 40 percent. The number of deposits at this point is down 67 percent.

Again, I urge all of my colleagues to support this legislation, which, at this moment in our economy, is so critically needed.

Financial aid offices are short staffed and have been since COVID.

You have been a long champion of this work.

I thank Mr. Scott for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong support of the bipartisan A Stronger Workforce for America Act, which makes critical improvements to America's job training laws that will close the skills gap, strengthen the…

The Department, particularly in terms of the public service loan forgiveness, they were under court order to fix that program.

I join my colleagues to rise today in strong support of the Missing Children's Assistance Reauthorization Act of 2023. This bill is the Senate companion to H.R. 5224, which I co-led with the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Bean), a member of…

the fact is that the ARPA was the more cost-effective solution in terms of rescuing these plans, and not putting the hardship on retirees.

I mean based on what your data shows, this has been a win/win for the taxpayer.

Again, it is really just a question of who is got the lines of authority on the Federal Government side...

Just know that there will be a lot of profit in the coffers of the union, but your kids, your son, your daughter, your niece, your nephews, they will be impacted by this when their programs disappear.