Roger Williams: “I am from the private sector. I am from Texas. And I am all about jobs and business.”

There has been a significant shortage in skilled labor across the country for way too long.

Thank you, Chairman Williams for including this legislation in our markup today and I hope that all of my colleagues on both sides of the aisle will agree that simple, clear language is a way to ensure prosperity for our small businesses.

This amendment also guts the purpose of this bill by directing agencies to do something already within their purview.

I urge my colleagues to support this commonsense legislation, and I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Moore of North Carolina). The question is on the motion offered by the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Williams)…