"The importance of CTE cannot be overstated--its programs equip our nation's students with the skills they need to succeed in a rapidly evolving 21st century economy."
"The importance of CTE cannot be overstated. Its programs equip our Nation's students with the skills they need to succeed."
"We need to continue to be the best by making sure we have a workforce that is able to keep us on the top."
"America once again needs to build and make things. We have always been the Nation that everyone looked to for quality."
"We must do everything we can to maintain and strengthen these programs."
"You are making it seem, to me, that you are doing them a favor by hiring them and then making them work a lot of hours and not paying them."
"It is a penalty on employers who work their employees excessive hours."
"you are helping them in one respect, but you are holding them down in another."
"the very people that you all represent, low-income people--they are the ones who need it the most."
"I guess maybe I am one of the few people that really lives in the real world here."
"It is supply and demand. That is just basic, simple economics."