Patty Murray

It recognizes those veterans and I want to thank you for that.

They were pretty angry that their tax dollars were being used to cover the consequences of years of recklessness on Wall Street and failures of a regulatory system.

I will share--my legislation is actually called Career Pathways to bring together local community, business, labor, education folks to start planning and working toward those skills.

It has helped to re-engage them with their community and teach them about the demands of the workplace.

So I just wanted to do that.

So these dollars are coming at a very critical time when businesses want to think things are doing better, but they are a little bit afraid, and don't have the private investment right now.

I think we are at a critical time, as many people we represent are waking again this morning worried about whether or not they are going to have a job, be able to get a job, or whether they have the training for the kinds of jobs that are…

We have an opportunity, I think, as we put together a jobs package, to really focus on making sure that the people in this country have the capability of getting the jobs of the future that we know are coming, but they are hard to find…

It is going to put people to work, and it is going to help homeowners, businesses, and the environment in the future.

My State, too, received a $6 million grant yesterday through the Department of Labor. We are very excited about it.

Just because you come from tough socioeconomic circumstances doesn't mean that you should get an inferior education.

During briefing about United States-Japan relations, Senator Patty Murray and DCM James Zumwalt discussed Embassy efforts regarding IPCA in Japan.

I am working on a proposal for a demonstration project between the Departments of Labor, Defense and Veterans Affairs called the Military Pathways Demonstration Program that will really test projects that look at the feasibility of methods…

Because one of the things I hear from veterans a lot is they do not get credit at educational institutions for a lot of the work and experience they have.

It is having great results for the students, the veterans, the university, as well as all those communities that those trained people then go into.

How we treat our veterans when they come home is an indication of the character of this Nation

Do you have any recommendations how we can improve TAP to help our servicemembers?

It is not in just how the veterans put it on the paper. It is how an employer reads that resume.

I want to thank everybody and, Mr. Chairman, especially you for doing this hearing on a very, very important topic.

Thank you to all of our witnesses for your excellent testimony and all the work you are doing out in the real world to help put our veterans to work and bring back the respect and dignity as you have all described.

Mr. Chairman, thank you very much for holding this really important hearing on some of the burdens that our veterans are seeing as they try to come home and get civilian employment.

One of them that I hear constantly is how do we match a veteran's skills and their experience with the needs of potential employers.

Expectations were high. We have all watched, with frustration, long lines at home, in many places...

I am very concerned that CDC has issued these guidelines, they want people to stay home, it's absolutely the right thing to do.

We shouldn't put families in that bind. We should make sure that they stay home when they're sick.