"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."
"Enhancing the business involvement in the boards from 51 percent to two-thirds is really important because the businesses are the key here."
"I guess I would ask you to review to some degree how would the SKILLS Act provide more flexibility to Michigan Works!"
"I look forward to working together over the next 2 years and I will try to make sure my facts are accurate as well."
"Sequestration is not how Washington should conduct the people's business. It has created even more uncertainty in an already difficult environment."
"Twice House Republicans have taken action to replace sequestration with commonsense cuts and reforms."
"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."
"Sequestration is a terrible thing to happen."
"We should not be considering raising taxes, which we have just done on January 1st, because that slows economic growth."
"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."
"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."
"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."