[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 163 (Tuesday, September 21, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H4563]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




    EXPANDING JOB TRAINING PROGRAMS AND LOWERING THE COST OF HIGHER 
                               EDUCATION

  (Ms. SCANLON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. SCANLON. Madam Speaker, this weekend, I ran into a constituent 
whose story is a model for what we plan to deliver for more Americans 
through the Build Back Better Act.
  I met a mom in Media, from a solid middle-class family, and she was 
so excited to share the news about her son's new job. After completing 
the new maritime career development program at Delaware Community 
College, he attended a job fair and landed one of the new jobs at the 
Philadelphia shipyard, where he will be making $27 an hour and 
receiving full benefits.
  The Build Back Better Act will expand these kinds of opportunities 
and make them available to more Americans. It will expand job training 
programs and lower the cost of higher education by funding 2 years of 
tuition-free community college and increasing the value of Pell Grants.
  Using our Nation's network of community colleges as the pipeline, 
this bill will help connect more Americans to good paying jobs.
  The policies in the Build Back Better Act are urgently needed, they 
will strengthen our economy, and they are popular. It is time to deal 
working people back in.

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