A guest worker program is not a luxury. It is a basic business necessity critical to their survival.

This is critical to our ability to plan annually how much new work we can take on.

This issue is about small businesses and the jobs they create which allow them to employ America workers.

I thank each member of the panel for taking the time to be with us today and adding the expertise and experience that you brought with.

It also spurs those of us who have had the privilege to be American citizens and to grow up here...

Our American workers, most of whom are managers or supervisors that work directly with or manage these H-2B work crews, are not employable if we do not have a trained and reliable source of labor.

It is a bit surreal to be sitting here on a committee talking about student loan debts and trying to come to a solution when we are having a great deal of difficulty in dealing with $16.5 trillion debt.

I guess I am asking what are you doing to stop it?

I hesitate in a sense talking about a congressional budget cycle because I am not sure if one of the Houses understands there is a budget cycle.

Education is a lifelong process. You will never learn everything so learn how to learn.

Creating a workforce investment fund like the SKILLS Act does essentially helps create that one fund with less mandates and restrictions and it actually will foster creativity which we need to do.