[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 63 (Thursday, May 19, 1994)]
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                      THE REEMPLOYMENT ACT OF 1994

  (Mr. KANJORSKI asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KANJORSKI. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to call to the attention of 
my colleagues an issue that is very important to my district and to the 
rest of America, and that issue is jobs. Sometime within the next 
several months, 2,000 workers in Wilkes-Barre, PA, employed at Leslie 
Fay, Inc., will probably receive the proverbial pink slip indicating 
that their employment is no longer necessary. They will have lost their 
jobs in the garment industry to some country such as Guatemala or 
Mexico, or some other country that can compete at a lower wage than the 
United States.
  This, Mr. Speaker, is the tragedy facing many Americans today. One of 
the major challenges that this Congress must face is that of creating 
job opportunities for Americans and reforming our existing programs to 
see that jobs are available.
  I call my colleagues' attention to the Reemployment Act of 1994, an 
initiative of President Clinton and the Secretary of Labor and this 
Congress which is second to none. It moves away from the old principal 
of unemployment compensation, and the maintenance of unemployment, and 
moves toward reemploying people by providing one-stop shopping and the 
opportunity to retrain, re-skill, and move people from one industry and 
one job opportunity into another.
  I urge my colleagues to support the President and the leadership of 
the Congress and join in supporting the Reemployment Act of 1994.

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