Political Quotes

“The gentleman has given me so much to work with here on community colleges, and then I will transition into transportation, as the gentleman would like to do. I visited, just yesterday, the Community College of Allegheny County, outside of Pittsburgh; and they have an amazing fundraising campaign going on, because western Pennsylvanians, private industry, and the foundation community believe in the future of our country, and they believe in the future of community colleges. They have a $40 million fundraising campaign. They've already exceeded $30 million. And the discussion was about all of the wonderful things that are happening as a result of the innovations that are taking place at the community colleges, not just in western Pennsylvania but across the country. We have energy resources in western Pennsylvania that are unique. And all the time we hear about employers saying that they have jobs available, but they can't find people who are trained to fill those spots. So being right on the cutting edge, the Community College of Allegheny County has almost two dozen new programs, new curricula that they have established to train workers and retrain, in some cases, to fill the new spots--geologists, managers, people out there on the worksites, all types of ways, through the natural gas industry, the nuclear industry, energy, research and development, what we were talking about earlier.…”