On the recordSeptember 30, 2015
Reclaiming my time, I couldn't have said it better. I know the gentleman has shared stories that I have experienced myself. When we look at the present state of U.S. manufacturing, these are not the days of smoke-filled rooms where safety wasn't a concern and that it was a dirty, drudgery type of environment that they existed in. This is cutting-edge. This is a safe workplace. This is where safety is paramount and where skills are so necessary. One of the things that I still see today that we have to fight--and I think the gentleman will share this position with me--is I do a lot of work back in the district going to local high schools, standing in front of juniors and seniors and having conversations with those kids about what they want to be when they get older. I remember vividly one story. It was the first time when I asked the question, ``What do you want to be when you get older?'' The kids' hands went up. You have got the lawyers. You have got the doctors. You have got the people that want to be like the Al Rokers. They want to be the weatherman or on the broadcast TV, that type of thing. I said, ``That is all fine and good. That is great.'' Then one young man, who was a senior, said, ``Congressman, I am going to be a welder.'' I went over the Moon with that young man.
