WORKFORCE INVESTMENT ACT

Amendments

Employment: strengthen career centers, provide effective governance arrangements, promote access to employment, training, and youth services, and improve performance accountability (H.R. 27), H881, H903, H904, H905 [2MR]

Articles and editorials

Poor Have More Things Today—Including Wild Income Swings, H870-H874 [2MR]

Bills and resolutions

Education: establish strategic sectoral skills gap assessments, strategic skills gap action plans, and strategic training capacity enhancement seed grants (see S. 1163), S6100 [6JN]

———provide for training service and delivery innovation projects (see S. 1164), S6100 [6JN]

Employment: establish a Personal Reemployment Accounts grant program to assist Americans in returning to work (see H.R. 26), H72 [4JA]

———provide for job training grant pilot program (see S. 694), S3147 [4AP]

———provide integrated workforce training programs for adults with limited English proficiency (see S. 834), S3817 [18AP]

———strengthen career centers, provide effective governance arrangements, promote access to employment, training, and youth services, and improve performance accountability (see H.R. 27), H72 [4JA]

———strengthen career centers, provide effective governance arrangements, promote access to employment, training, and youth services, and improve performance accountability (H.R. 27), consideration (see H. Res. 126), H845 [1MR]

Health care professionals: establish a demonstration project to train unemployed workers for employment as health care professionals (see S. 444), S1623 [17FE]

Hurricanes: provide special rules for disaster relief employment for individuals displaced by Hurricane Katrina (see S. 1718), S10187 [19SE] (see H.R. 3761), H7947 [14SE]

Reauthorize (see S. 1021), S5071 [12MY]

Letters

Job Training Improvement Act: Barry W. Lynn, Americans United for Separation of Church and State (organization), E365 [3MR]

———C. Welton Gaddy, Interfaith Alliance, E360 [3MR]

———Charles M. Loveless, American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, E361 [3MR]

———Coalition Against Religious Discrimination, E363 [3MR]

———David M. Smith and Christopher Labonte, Human Rights Campaign (organization), E362 [3MR]

———David Saperstein, Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, E360 [3MR]

———Elenora Giddings Ivory, E360 [3MR]

———Gary Bass, OMB Watch (organization), E359 [3MR]

———Hilary O. Shelton, NAACP, E361 [3MR]

———K. Hollyn Hollman, Baptist Joint Committee, E363 [3MR]

———Laura W. Murphy and Terri A. Schroeder, ACLU, E364 [3MR]

———Marsha Atkind, National Council of Jewish Women, E359 [3MR]

———Ralph G. Neas and Tanya M. Clay, People for the American Way (organization), E359 [3MR]

———Representative Robert Scott, E357 [3MR]

———Richard T. Foltin, American Jewish Committee, E359 [3MR]

———Robert C. Keithan, Universalist Association of Congregations, E360 [3MR]

———several organizations, E357 [3MR]

———Timothy McDonald, African American Ministers in Action (organization), E363 [3MR]

———Tony Hileman, American Humanist Association, E359 [3MR]

———William Samuel, AFL-CIO, E362 [3MR]

Personal Reemployment Accounts grant program establishment to assist Americans in returning to work: Steven J. Law, Dept. of Labor, H875 [2MR]

Motions

Employment: strengthen career centers, provide effective governance arrangements, promote access to employment, training, and youth services, and improve performance accountability (H.R. 27), H914 [2MR]

Remarks in House

Children and youth: in-school youth programs funding, H903, H904 [2MR]

Education: improve reporting of high school-aged students participating in adult educational programs, H875 [2MR]

Employment: establish a Personal Reemployment Accounts grant program to assist Americans in returning to work, H875 [2MR]

———establish a Personal Reemployment Accounts grant program to assist Americans in returning to work (H.R. 26), E10 [4JA]

———strengthen career centers, provide effective governance arrangements, promote access to employment, training, and youth services, and improve performance accountability (H.R. 27), H827 [1MR], H868-H917 [2MR], E357 [3MR], E384 [8MR], E391 [9MR]

———strengthen career centers, provide effective governance arrangements, promote access to employment, training, and youth services, and improve performance accountability (H.R. 27), consideration (H. Res. 126), H859-H866 [2MR]

———strengthen career centers, provide effective governance arrangements, promote access to employment, training, and youth services, and improve performance accountability (H.R. 27), motion to recommit, H915 [2MR]

Federal aid programs: prohibit faith-based organizations receiving Federal funds from discriminating in hiring practices, H860-H866, H874-H881, H905-H912 [2MR]

———provide assistance to veterans returning from active duty and to workers who lose jobs due to outsourcing, H915 [2MR]

Hurricanes: provide special rules for disaster relief employment for individuals displaced by Hurricane Katrina (H.R. 3761), H8108-H8110 [20SE], E1908 [21SE]

SBA: allow unemployed workers to use Personal Reemployment Account funds to cover borrower guarantee costs of certain SBA loans, H904, H905 [2MR]

Veterans: job training programs funding, H865 [2MR]

Remarks in Senate

Health care professionals: establish a demonstration project to train unemployed workers for employment as health care professionals (S. 444), S1607, S1657 [17FE]

Hurricanes: provide special rules for disaster relief employment for individuals displaced by Hurricane Katrina (H.R. 3761), S10320 [21SE]

———provide special rules for disaster relief employment for individuals displaced by Hurricane Katrina (S. 1718), S10189, S10200 [19SE], S10246 [20SE]

Reauthorize (S. 1021), S5114, S5153 [12MY]

Reports filed

Consideration of H.R. 27, Job Training Improvement Act: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 126) (H. Rept. 109-11), H845 [1MR]

Job Training Improvement Act: Committee on Education and the Workforce (House) (H.R. 27) (H. Rept. 109-9), H845 [1MR]

Reauthorize: Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (Senate) (S. 1021) (S. Rept. 109-134), S9727 [7SE]

Texts of

H. Res. 126, consideration of H.R. 27, Job Training Improvement Act, H859 [2MR]

H.R. 27, Job Training Improvement Act, H881-H902 [2MR]

H.R. 3761, Flexibility for Displaced Workers Act, H8108 [20SE]

S. 694, provide for job training grant pilot program, S3156 [4AP]

S. 834, Limited English Proficiency and Integrated Workforce Training Act, S3830 [18AP]

S. 1021, reauthorize, S5114-S5153 [12MY]