UNEMPLOYMENT

Amendments

Hurricanes: provide relief for the victims of Hurricane Katrina (S. 1777), S1366, S1371 [15FE], H499 [1MR]

Workforce Investment Act: reauthorize (S. 1021), S6812, S7181 [29JN]

———strengthen career centers, provide effective governance arrangements, promote access to employment, training, and youth services, and improve performance accountability (H.R. 27), S7220 [29JN]

Bills and resolutions

Economy: provide for economic security and prosperity (see S. 2357), S1644 [2MR]

Hurricanes: extend availability of assistance made available in connection with Hurricanes Katrina and Rita (see H.R. 5392), H2641 [16MY]

Katrina Emergency Assistance Act: extend the period of compensation in connection with Hurricane Katrina (see S. 3030), S5117 [24MY]

Taxation: reduce certain tax benefits allowable to profitable large corporations which make certain workforce reductions (see H.R. 5378), H2585 [11MY]

Remarks in House

Dept. of Labor: Trade Adjustment Assistance program funding, H2727 [17MY]

Economy: importance of job creation, H216, H217 [8FE], H545-H548, H551 [2MR], H1377 [30MR], H1554 [5AP], H1581, H1583, H1584 [6AP], H2458, H2459 [10MY], H2574 [11MY], H3481 [7JN], H4676-H4678 [27JN], H4932 [10JY], E543 [6AP]

———increase in household debt, H3646 [9JN]

———national objectives priority assignments, H146, H147, H149-H151 [1FE], H1829 [26AP], H3773, H3774 [12JN], H3803 [13JN], H3980 [14JN]

Employment: impact of the outsourcing of jobs to foreign countries on the economy, H204-H206 [8FE], H3774, H3776 [12JN], H3891 [13JN], E387 [16MR]

Hurricanes: provide relief for the victims of Hurricane Katrina, E594 [25AP]

———provide relief for the victims of Hurricane Katrina (S. 1777), H499 [1MR], H514 [2MR]

National objectives: priority assignments, H4905 [29JN]

Rates, H203 [8FE]

Remarks in Senate

Economy: importance of job creation, S736-S738 [7FE], S1322 [15FE], S1991 [13MR], S4418, S4419 [11MY], S7290, S7292 [11JY]

———national objectives priority assignments, S6619 [28JN]

———provide for economic security and prosperity (S. 2357), S1648-S1651 [2MR]

Employment: impact of the outsourcing of jobs to foreign countries on the economy, S2702-S2704 [3AP], S4585-S4588, S4597-S4599 [16MY], S4728 [18MY], S6598 [28JN]

Hurricanes: provide relief for the victims of Hurricane Katrina (S. 1777), S1371 [15FE], S1404 [16FE], S1757 [3MR]

Workforce Investment Act: reauthorize (S. 1021), S7181-S7219 [29JN]

———strengthen career centers, provide effective governance arrangements, promote access to employment, training, and youth services, and improve performance accountability (H.R. 27), insert S. 1021 language in lieu, S7219 [29JN]

Testimonies

Manufacturing Jobs Loss: Charles McCray, E543 [6AP]

———Patricia Neal, E543 [6AP]

———Sherry Lowell, E543 [6AP]

Texts of

H.R. 27, strengthen career centers, provide effective governance arrangements, promote access to employment, training, and youth services, and improve performance accountability, S7220-S7257 [29JN]

S. 1021, Workforce Investment Act reauthorization, S7181-S7218 [29JN]

S. 1777, Katrina Emergency Assistance Act, S1757 [3MR], H514 [2MR]