I am particularly glad to be on a community college campus and, I think, to see a group of students with us this morning.

We hope this field hearing has been beneficial and that your future travels provide you with additional useful information.

The legislation, known as the SKILLS Act, will eliminate waste and better align available education and workforce development programs.

Thank you very much.

Again, I want to thank you for taking time out of your schedules to be here.

So she not only had the skills, but she could show that she had the skills.

We call them silos, where money is appropriated but people aren't able to take advantage of it even though they need it because they don't fit the exact criteria.

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