Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself 2\1/2\ minutes. Mr. Speaker, let me acknowledge the support of the Democratic staff that are here as well: Kara Getz, Karen McAfee, Aruna Kalyanam, Peg McGlinch, Deva Kyle, Ji Prichard, and Suzanne Walsh. They did a magnificent job as well, and we are much dependent on the good staff work, particularly, on the Ways and Means Committee. Mr. Speaker, I spoke earlier of the missed opportunity that we have here. We have a real problem in America with labor participation rates. Six million job go unanswered every day now in America, 18,000 precision manufacturing jobs in New England, and 1 million tech jobs, because skill sets don't align with the job opportunities that are out there. Two million Americans sit home with opioid addictions who should be in the workforce. This was a chance to invest in human capital as well, to invest in our community colleges, to invest in apprenticeship programs. Yes, the other challenge that we have in America is, clearly, to invest in vocational education for many of the jobs that are available. Instead, we pushed that off to the side and decided that, once again, if we just had tax cuts, all of these challenges and problems would go away. The idea of investing in the human side of American opportunity is then people do what we would like them to do in terms of home buying, raising families, caring for neighborhoods, and practicing the art form of citizenship.…”