[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 11397]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    TIME TO GET AMERICA BACK TO WORK

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from 
West Virginia (Mrs. Capito) for 5 minutes.
  Mrs. CAPITO. Mr. Speaker, it is time to get America back to work. The 
people of my State, West Virginia, want to work. They want to provide 
for their families and they want to build a better future. But in 
today's economy, finding a job has been very, very difficult.
  That is why I am pleased to support the Workforce Innovation and 
Opportunity Act, which the House will vote on later today. We will make 
sure that American workers will have the training they need for the 
jobs available in their communities and an efficient use of the 
resources so that that will be the best way to train for the jobs of 
tomorrow.
  Employers want to hire in their communities. Workers want to have the 
skills and training to secure good-paying jobs in their communities. In 
West Virginia, this means getting additional resources to train workers 
for jobs available in our growing natural gas industry or to provide 
health care services for our elderly citizens.
  We can use existing resources like community colleges and career and 
technical centers to offer group training that directly addresses the 
needs of local employers, as this bill would do.
  By aligning workers' skills with employers' needs, we can help get 
West Virginia and America working again.

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