I am also very appreciative that you and members of your committee are allowing for more input regarding the needs of community colleges

Thank you for the opportunity to testify before the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training in February

If you need further clarification to my comments or have more questions, please do not hesitate to ask.

I expect we will discuss others throughout the hearing, including how the bill encourages greater collaboration with community colleges and promotes accountability over the use of taxpayer dollars.

I think that what we have here is a--it boils down to a philosophy that either Washington knows best or locals know best.

I believe it is past time to reauthorize and reexamine the Workforce Investment Act in a way that addresses each of these issues.

It is people who are currently working who are paying a lot in taxes to provide for these programs, which people who may never have worked in the real world are making decisions on how to spend.

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these are the partnerships we embrace and hope to replicate

I would like to thank the gentleman from Virginia for that nice introduction, but especially thank him for leading this Special Order tonight and for being such a leader with our Congressional Prayer Caucus. He has given great…

one of the things we are all concerned about is the issue of transparency and making sure that people have the kind of information that you are gathering