[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 109 (Tuesday, August 9, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: August 9, 1994]
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                      JOB TRAINING PARTNERSHIP ACT

  Mr. SIMON. Madam President, I rise to express my disappointment with 
the committee's decision to rescind $50,000,000 in funding for youth 
training under title IIC of the Job Training Partnership Act. The 
committee report indicates that the reason for the recession was ``a 
study indicating problems with the out-of-school component.'' 
Regrettably, the committee did not take into consideration the fact 
that in 1992, the Congress passed comprehensive amendments to title II 
of JTPA to address the very problems that led to the negative findings 
in the study. Significantly, the study was conducted prior to 
implementation of those amendments. In addition, the Department of 
Labor is currently engaged in a dialog with organizations and 
individuals with a stake in the JTPA Title II system. The dialog is 
designed to provide interested parties with an opportunity to provide 
suggestions for further improvements to the program. Cutting the 
program at this time sends the wrong signal. I urge the conferees to 
move toward the House position when this issue is considered in 
conference.

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