[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 2176]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION MONTH

  (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 am pleased to join my good friend and 
colleague, Mr. Thompson of Pennsylvania, in recognition of Career and 
Technical Education Month. As cochairs of the Congressional CTE Caucus, 
we are absolutely committed to ensuring that every student has the 
ability to achieve his or her career goals.
  Mr. Speaker, it is long past time to reauthorize the Carl D. Perkins 
Career and Technical Education Act. I certainly look forward to working 
with all my colleagues on this important legislation.
  This year the CTE Caucus will also focus on expanding apprenticeships 
and employer-educator partnerships, as well as helping school 
counselors to provide students the information necessary to make 
informed career decisions.
  To that end, I encourage all of my colleagues to join us on the 
Congressional CTE Caucus and also to cosponsor the bipartisan 
Counseling for Career Choice Act that we will introduce later this 
month that will ensure that school counselors have all the job training 
information that they need to understand in order to advise their 
students about the good-paying jobs that will be available to them in 
the future.
  I want to thank, again, my good friend and colleague, Mr. Thompson 
from Pennsylvania, for being such a strong partner on these issues.

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