Patty Murray actually said...

"So, is there something we can do to change it so that this is taken seriously by mine operators?"

"But, people are looking whether you have a backlog or not."

"the veterans I have talked to, they tell me how their peers who graduated with them from high school or community college many years ago went off into the regular civilian work world, got work experie..."

"Those are really the groups that we are trying to focus on within this legislation."