Virginia Foxx: “the gentlewoman from Tennessee (Mrs. Blackburn) is so eloquent in her words about freedom and the economy and what makes…”

“the gentlewoman from Tennessee (Mrs. Blackburn) is so eloquent in her words about freedom and the economy and what makes this country great. We have the healthiest economy in the world, and I want to build on the things that my colleagues have said. The reason we have the healthiest economy in the world is because we are the freest people in the world. I agree with what the President has been saying. If we want to see a good world, we want to see people have all of the rights and privileges, we are going to see freedom throughout the world and we are going to see growing economies. As again the gentlewoman from Tennessee (Mrs. Blackburn) said, job creation was up in 48 of the 50 States last year, and unemployment was down in all regions. I want to talk a little bit about the Job Training Improvement Act which is going to be voted on here tomorrow. The Committee on Education and the Workforce has passed it out of our committee after a great deal of debate. H.R. 27 is called Strengthening America's Job Training System. It builds on the significant reforms made in the bipartisan Workforce Investment Act improvements that were enacted in 1998. While those reforms have provided workers with resources and tools necessary to rejoin the workforce or retrain for better jobs, there were still areas of inefficiency and duplication that were remaining. What H.R. 27 is going to do, among other things, is eliminate duplication and waste.”