Political Quotes

“Absolutely. Let me give people some hope. Virginia Foxx, a Representative in the House, who is the chairman of the Subcommittee on Workforce and Labor, has passed a bill out of her committee that consolidates 33 of those job training programs into 1, puts metrics on every one of them so we will know if they are working and requires mandatory oversight of them. The reason she did not do all 47 is 14 of them are not in her jurisdiction. But add to it another $4 billion, and another 20-plus programs for the disabled, so we actually have almost 70 programs and $23 billion a year we are spending on job training, of which nobody knows--as a matter of fact I know they are not working. We actually released a report on job training in Oklahoma. We looked at every Federal job training and State job training program going on in Oklahoma. Do you know what works? Oklahoma programs. Do you know what does not work? Federal job training programs in Oklahoma. We have 1 city in Oklahoma that is 16,000 people, 17 Federal job training centers, and an unemployment rate of 4.7 percent; 17 different Federal agencies in 1 city of 16,000 people with an unemployment rate of 4.7 percent. What we are doing is employing people in the job training industry--which may be good if they are having results. But we have results that are untenable. Job training is just one area of our Federal Government. The GAO has released reports on duplication.…”