Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Education and the Workforce be discharged from further consideration of the bill (S. 1124) to amend the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act to improve the Act, and ask for its immediate consideration in the House. The Clerk read the title of the bill. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the gentlewoman from North Carolina? There was no objection. The text of the bill is as follows: S. 1124 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``WIOA Technical Amendments Act''. SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS TO WORKFORCE INNOVATION AND OPPORTUNITY ACT. (a) Designation of Areas Served by Rural Concentrated Employment Programs as Local Areas.-- (1) In general.--Section 106(b) of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (29 U.S.C. 3121(b)) is amended-- (A) by redesignating paragraphs (5) and (6) as paragraphs (6) and (7), respectively; and (B) by inserting after paragraph (4) the following: ``(5) Areas served by rural concentrated employment programs.--The Governor may approve, under paragraph (2) or (3), a request for designation as a local area from an area described in section 107(c)(1)(C).''. (b) Local Workforce Development Boards.--Section 107(i)(1)(B) of such Act (29 U.S.C.…”