[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 4934]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   FOSTERING MIDDLE CLASS PROSPERITY

  (Mrs. DAVIS of California asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute.)
  Mrs. DAVIS of California. Mr. Speaker, we need to focus on fostering 
middle class prosperity, and I feel investing in job training and 
education is the best way to do that.
  We recently had an opportunity to revamp the Workforce Investment 
Act. However, the consolidation approach that was taken with that bill 
was counterproductive. That legislation could have been a bipartisan 
effort. Instead, it has gone to the Senate to die.
  So I propose, instead of belittling Federal employees, attacking 
unions and repealing environmental protections, why don't we focus on 
working together across the aisle and doing what we can to equip people 
with the skills and the education they need to fill the job openings 
that are out there.
  That might sound warm and fuzzy, but that is what Americans want us 
to do. My constituents have told me again and again: let's focus on 
practical solutions to the problems people are facing, not political 
ideology.

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