[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 10 (Thursday, January 16, 2014)]
[House]
[Page H1229]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION

  (Mr. LANGEVIN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LANGEVIN. Mr. Speaker, I join my colleague, Congressman ``GT'' 
Thompson from Pennsylvania, as cochairs of the bipartisan Career and 
Technical Education Caucus in commending House appropriators and my 
colleagues for the increase in Perkins Act funding for career and 
technical education funding.
  This funding is vitally important for training the next generation of 
workers who will enter the career and technical education fields. These 
are good-paying jobs. At a time where Rhode Island--my home State--has 
one of the highest unemployment rates in the country, this funding for 
career and technical education could not come at a more critical time.
  It is frustrating to see so many people out of work. Yet when you 
talk to businesses around our State and around the country, one of the 
main things that they found a real challenge is finding the people with 
the right skills to do the jobs that are available right now.
  So by focusing on these areas of career and technical education, 
whether it be in IT or woodworking or culinary or engineering, these 
are vitally important jobs in our communities, in our country, and they 
are going to do a lot to get people back to work.
  I want to thank my colleagues for their support of Perkins Act 
funding and career and technical education programs.
  I, again, thank my colleague, Congressman ``GT'' Thompson of 
Pennsylvania, for the bipartisan effort that he and I have put into 
this vitally important area.

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