[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 71 (Thursday, June 9, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: June 9, 1994]
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                  SUPPORT THE CLINTON REEMPLOYMENT ACT

  (Ms. DeLAURO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, the Reemployment Act would replace our 
antiquated unemployment system designed in the 1930's and built for a 
different era. In its place, we would see a system that meets the needs 
of workers and businesses in the 1990's and beyond.
  The Reemployment Act would at one-stop centers throughout our Nation, 
put in the hands of workers and businesses the information, assistance, 
training and counseling they need to make the connection to jobs in the 
1990's--connections our unemployment system is simply just not built to 
help make.
  Katherine Abraham, the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics 
in a letter to me last week, confirmed that the most recent data we 
have shows that three-fifths of the jobs that are being created are in 
high paying fields. These good jobs are now out of reach for many of 
the more than 2 million workers who will be dislocated this year--
workers who are being left behind without work and without hope.
  We need to pass Clinton Reemployment Act and help give these workers 
the skills they need to compete effectively for these jobs--to make the 
connection to hope and prosperity that these new, good jobs represent.

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