[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 68 (Thursday, May 26, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: May 26, 1994]
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                          THE REEMPLOYMENT ACT

  (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, bad news, good news. The bad 
news is my district suffers the second worst unemployment in the entire 
country.
  The good news is new projects and programs, with the help of the 
Federal Government, will create hundreds of jobs and millions of 
dollars of economic activity in just the next 6 to 9 months.
  The bad news is the people who are unemployed may not be the exact 
fit for the new jobs that are coming into the district.
  The good news is the President's Reemployment Act will help provide 
persons the training they need for the new jobs being created in our 
increasingly information-driven, computer-operated, consumer-oriented 
job market.
  Let me give you one example.
  Two weeks ago the Department of Defense announced that it was 
locating in my district a new Defense Finance Accounting Service--or 
DFAS office. This office will create 750 jobs in the Monterey area. 
Within hours of the announcement, my office was flooded with phone 
calls from persons wanting to apply for the jobs at the DFAS. Even now, 
2 weeks later, my office is still serving as a clearinghouse for 
persons wanting information on employment.
  The jobs at the DFAS will require special technical skills, skills 
that, with training assistance from the Reemployment Act, will easily 
allow people in my community to fill those 750 new jobs.
  Mr. Speaker, the President's Reemployment Act is exactly the tonic we 
need to get people back to work. It gives people access to training. It 
gives them access to jobs. But most of all, it gives them access to the 
hope of a brighter future.

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