[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 81 (Thursday, June 23, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: June 23, 1994]
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                 SUPPORT URGED FOR THE 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 is all about building 
a reemployment system that meets the needs of workers and businesses in 
the 1990's and beyond. The more than 2 million workers who will be 
dislocated this year and in the years to come need the assistance that 
this new system would bring.
  At the heart of the Reemployment Act is an effort to improve our 
current unemployment offices which all too often offer little in the 
way of employment or services. The REA would put in their place one-
stop career centers that would bring real help to workers struggling to 
find good jobs in a rapidly changing economy.
  These career centers would offer immediate access to all of the 
programs available to workers looking for a new, or better job. Workers 
would be paired with career counselors who would work with them, guide 
them to the best programs, and commit themselves to seeing that workers 
succeed in finding that new and better job.
  Mr. Speaker, we need to pass the Reemployment Act this year and get 
one-stop centers up and running in each of our communities. We need to 
work to put on the President's desk legislation that would put in the 
hands of all workers the information and assistance they need to make 
the jobs connections in the 1990's and beyond.

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