Tim Walberg

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.

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 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.

I guess I would ask you to review to some degree how would the SKILLS Act provide more flexibility to Michigan Works!

Enhancing the business involvement in the boards from 51 percent to two-thirds is really important because the businesses are the key here.

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.

I would appreciate if you could give me your assurance that in the future when we request information like this we won't have to go through this process.

his policies intentionally increased the price of energy.

the fundamental disconnect with President Obama's energy policies.

Robust oil production in North America does two, two critical things.

Like Congressman Ryan, businesses can foresee the layoffs that will be necessary--and this predictability triggers a legal requirement that they send out notices to their employees 60 days in advance.

Sequestration is not how Washington should conduct the people's business. It has created even more uncertainty in an already difficult environment.

I would hope it wouldn't take calling a subcommittee hearing in order to get information like this, 400 pages of it, the night before the hearing.

We should not be considering raising taxes, which we have just done on January 1st, because that slows economic growth.

Twice House Republicans have taken action to replace sequestration with commonsense cuts and reforms.

I would hate to think that there is obstruction taking place of the efforts that we ought to be working together on.

I cannot understand why the DOL would issue a guidance advising employers to provide less notice rather than more when sequestration is the current law of the land.

It is my sincere hope that this Congress can once again make the compromises and take the action necessary to provide our employers with the certainty they need and avoid the self-inflicted damage to our economy that we have within our…

I look forward to working together over the next 2 years and I will try to make sure my facts are accurate as well.

The fact sheet specifically states, and I quote--'employers should be aware that the U.S. federal court solely enforces the WARN Act, and these answers are not binding on the courts.'