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

  (Mr. FARR of California asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. FARR of California. Mr. Speaker, I rise to endorse the 
President's Re-Employment Act.
  This legislation is long overdue. Our current retraining and job 
placement effort is a miasma of programs, a cross-stitch of agencies, 
and a confusing network of support systems, that sometimes work, but 
more often do not.
  The President's Re-Employment Act creates clarity out of chaos and 
simplicity out of confusion by consolidating similar job-training and 
job placement programs into a single program.
  Under this bill, no longer will the emphasis be on why a worker lost 
his or her job, but how to put hard-working people back into the 
workplace.
  I can testify first-hand that the President's Re-employment Act will 
work. A similar program is in operation in my district right now. The 
Monterey County Regional Job Opportunity Center is a one-stop resource 
and information center for job training, job placement and worker 
benefits and assistance.
  This job opportunity center assists job seekers with identification 
of skills and abilities, job retraining, job search preparation and the 
directed job search. For employers, the job opportunity center assists 
with recruitment, screening and referral, employee training 
reimbursements, and identification of potential tax credits.
  The President's bill seeks to do the same. It pairs the unemployed 
with employers who need good, solid workers, and it does it in a 
simple, straightforward way.
  Let us get the President's bill moving so we can put America back to 
work again!

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