[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 71 (Thursday, June 9, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: June 9, 1994]
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        MEMBERS URGED TO COSPONSOR THE REEMPLOYMENT ACT OF 1994

  (Ms. WOOLSEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. WOOLSEY. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to urge my colleagues to join 
me in revolutionizing our unemployment system, a system which is better 
at issuing unemployment checks than getting people into a job so they 
can earn a paycheck.
  As a human resources and employment consultant for over 20 years, I 
have consulted with too many businesses that have jobs, but cannot find 
workers who are appropriately trained, and I have met with too many 
unemployed workers that do not know where to get the training and 
services they need to be employed or reemployed.
  I know first-hand that what we need is a system that trains people 
for the skilled jobs that are needed in our communities.
  That is why I am a cosponsor of the Reemployment Act of 1994. This 
bill transforms the current unemployment system into a reemployment 
system that guides workers into the jobs of the future that pay a 
family wage.
  Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to cosponsor the Reemployment Act 
of 1994.

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