Jackie Walorski

One employee at a company I was touring told me just recently that these aren't--the benefits that he has right now are not the crumbs as Speaker Pelosi told them and told the country.

These are hardworking people, hardworking Hoosiers. They are not the 1 percent that you all have been arguing about.

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act has been nothing but positive.

In one example, to be more family-friendly, workers actually asked for a four-day work week.

I am just curious. I am very much looking at a different kind of case management reform, putting people back in the lives of people to help and not just having people that are a number and are running things through the system.

Now, it will cost the employers a little bit more to do that, but in the long run, with even the greater burden, it still was a change that could be made now because the economy is on an uptick.

What I am hearing is that employers are desperate to make their employees happy so they can keep them.

I appreciate it. And when we talk about disincentives for State and local action, as I understand, EARN Maryland is completely State-funded, with the provision of wrap-around services and the type of job training, local job training…

I agree that at a time when we have 7.3 million job openings and demands for workers that is producing upward pressure on wages, we do need to know what is holding back individuals who are still not back in the workforce.

Do you expect to meet that 30-day deadline?

When can we expect that Federal Register notice?

There is obviously great support in Congress for an exclusion process for List 3, and we have chatted about it, and I appreciate that.

And with that, when do you anticipate releasing more decisions for exclusion requests from Lists 1 or 2 of the 301 tariffs?

I ask permission to insert into the record a letter signed by over 150 trade associations, asking for a Federal Register notice that formally delays the increase of the List 3 tariffs from 10 percent to 25 percent.

I now yield to my friend from the First District of Kansas (Mr. Marshall).

I now yield to my friend from the Second District of Tennessee (Mr. Burchett).

It does happen. We are going to do all we can to absolutely prevent this happening. I thank my colleagues who have spoken so far. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Pence), my friend and fellow Hoosier from Indiana's…

I thank my friends who are here, Jaime, Representative Roby, and Representative Ann Wagner standing here, and I reiterate the reason we are here is that we are serious about this. I did the unanimous consent tonight and asked the Speaker…

Doing this, I believe, sets a dangerous precedent, eroding the very laws put in place to protect the private tax return of each and every American.

I was proud to vote for the Family First Prevention Services Act because we needed to reframe the conversation.

The opioid crisis has put unprecedented strains on our communities and social service agencies.

So, given the fact that these are young people coming right out of high school and they really don't have these skills that you are trying to teach them, soft skills, show up, it is important.

It is a challenge that is pretty well documented across my district in northern Indiana.

Thanks to all of you for being here to talk about the jobs gap.

Sometimes we put too much pressure on kids to go to a 4-year university right out of high school.