David Obey: “I would simply say that when we talk about the Job Corps, we are talking about young people who up to that moment in…”

“I would simply say that when we talk about the Job Corps, we are talking about young people who up to that moment in their lives are 100-percent failures and the Job Corps manages to salvage about 50 percent of those young people. That is a better batting average than Babe Ruth had. I must say, I am amused by the fact that just 3 days ago we saw on the floor a chart by one of the Members of the majority side and that chart was used to brag about how much the Job Corps was being increased by the majority party; and now this amendment seeks, I guess, to rip up that chart. And I guess maybe those speeches on behalf of the Job Corps that were given on the other side would have to be ripped up, as well. This just is not something we ought to do. It goes at people who have no hope without help, and I think we ought to turn the amendment down.”