Political Quotes

“just last month I joined seven of my colleagues, Republicans and Democrats from the House and the Senate, to introduce a critical piece of legislation called the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act. It is a bill to reauthorize and dramatically improve the Workforce Investment Act, or WIA, which authorizes a number of critical workforce development programs in all 50 States. This legislation is something I have been working on for several years with a number of our colleagues. It is something that is long overdue--for more than a decade. Since we introduced a compromise deal last month, we have been working feverishly with our colleagues on both sides of the aisle and both sides of the Capitol to iron out any issues they might have and make a few small technical fixes. We have made sure that every single Member of the Senate and their staffs have had the time to look through this deal, ask questions, and propose amendments. Now, today, we are one final step away from sending this tremendous bipartisan deal to the House of Representatives and then hopefully to the President's desk. I ask unanimous consent to have printed in the Record a list of over 100 organizations supporting this bill, including business groups, labor, educators, Governors, mayors, and countless others. Improving our Federal workforce programs is, as I said, something I have been working on for more than a decade.…”