Virginia Foxx: “You know what is so sad to me is that I am out every week in my district talking to job creators and businesses who are…”

“You know what is so sad to me is that I am out every week in my district talking to job creators and businesses who are desperate for workers and who want to create apprenticeship programs but will not go through the onerous process of the registered apprenticeship program. Yet, these are the people who are paying the taxes, and hardworking Americans in those jobs are paying the taxes. What the Democrats want to do is to transfer hardworking taxpayer dollars over to their friends in the unions, keeping them solvent. We know union membership is down. This is a way to boost their membership, by forcing business and industry to go into the registered apprenticeship program. This is wrong. They are not representing hardworking Americans who want to develop skills for the in-demand jobs. This is the wrong way for our country to be going. We need to support all types of business and industry that wants to help people gain the skills that they need for the in-demand jobs. This amendment is wrong. This bill is wrong. We should vote against the amendment, and we should vote against the bill. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.”