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Tim Walberg is an American politician currently serving as the U.S. Representative for Michigan's 5th congressional district, a position he has held since January 5, 2011. A member of the Republican Party, Walberg has focused on various issues during his tenure, including education and fiscal policy. He has been vocal about the challenges facing education in the United States, recently commenting on the decline in NAEP scores in subjects like math and reading.
I thank the chairman. Madam Chair, our country's job training program often stands, sadly, as a barrier between workers and the employers who want to hire them. In December 2012, employers reported 3.6 million job openings all across our…
We need to be careful about how we administer any temporary guest worker program to ensure that foreign workers are not exploited and U.S. workers have a shot at available jobs.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Speaker, welfare work requirements have helped Michiganders and millions of Americans reduce their dependency on government assistance and get back on their feet again, and that's a good thing. And that, for…
our challenge is to create a mechanism that responds to the needs of business in a market-driven way while also protecting the wages and working conditions of U.S. and immigrant workers.
To help our economy move forward we must ensure, first of all, all American workers have the tools they need to compete for good-paying jobs here at home.
This is an issue and I would concur with both sides of the rostrum here that immigration is a huge issue that we have to address.
President Reagan often referred to our nation as a 'shining city on a hill.'
We will consider that, and ultimately, to have the opportunity to do good work.
A well-designed guest worker program is in the best interests of the potential migrants.
I hope today's discussion is the start of a productive debate on immigration reform--one that seeks to serve this nation's workers and employers.
What is needed, and the challenge you face as legislators, is an immigration system that reflects the needs of the economy.
Our immigration system is no longer as strong and effective as it should be and reform is complex and controversial.
This issue is about small businesses and the jobs they create which allow them to employ America workers.
Together, we believe that in order to be successful in fixing America's broken immigration system, any viable remedy must do four things...
This is critical to our ability to plan annually how much new work we can take on.
A guest worker program is not a luxury. It is a basic business necessity critical to their survival.
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.
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